Acoustic cues underlying auditory distance in barn owls

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 382-387

  Kim, Duck O ^a   Moiseff, Andrew ^b   Turner, J Bradley ^a   Gull, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Hearing; Localization; Sound

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HEAD; IMPULSIVENESS; KNOWLEDGE; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CUES; HEARING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 41349122253     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480701840114     Document Type: Article

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