Psychophysical and neurophysiological hearing thresholds in the bat Phyllostomus discolor

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-47

  Hoffmann, Susanne ^a   Baier, Leonie ^a   Borina, Frank ^a   Schuller, Gerd ^a   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audiogram; Chiroptera; Echolocation; Neurophysiology; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BAT; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHIROPTERA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; NEURONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 38049146370     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-007-0288-9     Document Type: Article

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