Object localization in cluttered acoustical environments

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 579-586

  Takahashi, T T ^a   Keller, C H ^a   Nelson, B S ^a   Spitzer, M W ^a,b   Bala, A D S ^a   Whitchurch, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BARN OWL; NEURAL BASIS; SPATIOTOPIC REPRESENTATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTONIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; OWL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISORDER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH DISORDERS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 43949111296     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-008-0232-2     Document Type: Article

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