Sound-localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: I. Echolocating species, Phyllostomus hastatus and Carollia perspicillata

Hearing Research

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Heffner, R S ^a   Koay, G ^a   Heffner, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Echolocation; Sound localization; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EATING; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEARING ACUITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 36048959226     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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