Discrimination of Acoustic Communication Signals by Grasshoppers (Chorthippus biguttulus): Temporal Resolution, Temporal Integration, and the Impact of Intrinsic Noise

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 252-263

  Ronacher, Bernhard ^a   Wohlgemuth, Sandra ^a   Vogel, Astrid ^a   Krahe, Rüdiger ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

intrinsic noise; neural encoding; sexual selection; spike distance metric; temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; GRASSHOPPER; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50849141924     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.122.3.252     Document Type: Article

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