Postnatal development of sound pressure transformations by the head and pinnae of the cat: Monaural characteristics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 980-994

  Tollin, Daniel J ^a   Koka, Kanthaiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC AXIS; ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; ASSOCIATED GAINS; DIRECTIONAL COMPONENTS; DIRECTIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; EAR CANALS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MAXIMUM GAINS; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SOUND PRESSURES; SOURCE LOCATIONS; TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ACOUSTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HOLOGRAMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESONANCE;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; CUES; EAR AURICLE; FEMALE; HEAD; MALE; PRESSURE; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59849099416     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3058630     Document Type: Article

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