Detecting modulated signals in modulated noise: (I) behavioural auditory thresholds in a songbird

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1969-1978

  Langemann, Ulrike ^a   Klump, Georg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory grouping; Comodulation detection difference; European starling; Psychophysics; Within channel processing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS;

EID: 34848924898     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05804.x     Document Type: Article

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