Hearing sensitivity during target presence and absence while a whale echolocates

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 534-541

  Supin, Alexander Ya ^a   Nachtigall, Paul E ^b   Breese, Marlee ^b  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SONAR;

CARRIER FREQUENCY; CLICK STATISTICS; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING SENSITIVITY;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ECHOLOCATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING ACUITY; KILLER WHALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 37849008687     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2812593     Document Type: Article

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