Comodulation masking release in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 625-633

  Branstetter, Brian K ^a   Finneran, James J ^a  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRELLIS CODES;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ACROSS FREQUENCY REGIONS; AMBIENT NOISE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE (CMR); CONVENTIONAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; GAUSSIAN NOISE; INFORMATION ACROSS; RANDOM GAUSSIAN NOISE; SNAPPING SHRIMP; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENT; FILTER; INFORMATION; MALE; MODEL; MODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROMETRY; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; MALE; NOISE;

EID: 47749108751     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2918545     Document Type: Article

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