Critical ratios of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) and masked signal duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2216-2223

  Erbe, Christine ^a  

^a JASCO Research Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATED; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE; BELUGA WHALES; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; CRITICAL BANDS; CRITICAL RATIOS; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; GAP LENGTH; HEARING THRESHOLDS; LOW FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL DURATION; SPECTRAL PEAKS; SPECTROGRAMS;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BELUGA WHALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BELUGA WHALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 53949103576     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2970094     Document Type: Article

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