Echo duration selectivity of the bat varies with pulse-echo amplitude difference

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-377

  Jen, Philip H S ^a   Wu, Chung Hsin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bat; Echo duration selectivity; Inferior colliculus; Pulse echo pairs

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; NEURONS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 40049086540     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f52c61     Document Type: Article

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