Underwater hearing sensitivity of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) for narrow noise bands between 0.2 and 80 kHz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 476-483

  Kastelein, Ronald A ^a   Wensveen, Paul ^a   Hoek, Lean ^a   Terhune, John M ^b  

^a Sea Mammal Research Company SEAMARCO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE; CENTER FREQUENCY; DETECTION RANGE; DETECTION RATES; GO/NO-GO; HARBOR SEALS; HEARING SENSITIVITY; HEARING THRESHOLD; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NARROW BANDS; NARROW-BAND NOISE; NOISE BANDS; OCTAVE BAND NOISE; OCTAVE BANDS; PHOCA VITULINA; STAIRCASE METHOD; STIMULUS LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SIGNAL DETECTION;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOCA; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; WATER;

EID: 68149105771     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3132522     Document Type: Article

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