Finding a mate at a cocktail party: spatial release from masking improves acoustic mate recognition in grey treefrogs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1781-1791

  Bee, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; cocktail party problem; communication; gray treefrog; grey treefrog; Hyla chrysoscelis; sound source segregation; spatial release from masking; spatial unmasking; vocal communication

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; FROG; HOMINID; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE LOCATION; MATE RECOGNITION; NOISE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; HYLA; HYLA CHRYSOSCELIS; HYLA VERSICOLOR;

EID: 42049104367     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.10.032     Document Type: Article

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