Evidence for spatial representation of object shape by echolocating bats (Eptesicus fuscus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4582-4598

  DeLong, Caroline M ^a   Bragg, Rebecca ^a   Simmons, James A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; MAMMALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SEPARATION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ASPECT ANGLES; BIG BROWN BATS; CROSS-RANGE; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; MONOPOLE AND DIPOLE; OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; OBJECT SHAPE; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; DECISION MAKING; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; DARKNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; RHODE ISLAND; SPACE PERCEPTION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 44949202457     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2912450     Document Type: Article

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