The Cocktail Party Problem: What Is It? How Can It Be Solved? And Why Should Animal Behaviorists Study It?

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 235-251

  Bee, Mark A ^a   Micheyl, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; animal communication

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORISM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORISM; CUES; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50849103969     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.122.3.235     Document Type: Article

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