Understanding auditory distance estimation by humpback whales: A computational approach

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-242

  Mercado III, E ^a   Green, S R ^a   Schneider, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cetacean; Communication; Localization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; NOISE; WHALE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; HUMPBACK WHALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMPBACK WHALE; JUDGMENT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION;

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA;

EID: 39149093441     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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