Discrimination of auditory gratings in birds

Hearing Research

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 11-20

  Osmanski, Michael S ^a   Marvit, Peter ^a   Depireux, Didier A ^b   Dooling, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory grating; Budgerigar; Human; Psychoacoustics; Threshold; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIRD; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; FINCHES; HUMANS; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 69549116473     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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