Critical ratios in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) for tonal signals between 0.315 and 150 kHz in random Gaussian white noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1588-1597

  Kastelein, Ronald A ^a   Wensveen, Paul J ^a   Hoek, Lean ^a   Au, Whitlow W L ^b   Terhune, John M ^c   De Jong, Christ A F ^d  

^a Sea Mammal Research Company SEAMARCO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CRITICAL RATIO; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DIRECTIVITY INDEX; GAUSSIAN WHITE NOISE; GO/NO-GO; HARBOR PORPOISE; HEARING THRESHOLD; MASKING NOISE; ODONTOCETES; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PSYCHOMETRIC METHODS; SEA STATE; SPECTRUM LEVELS; TEST FREQUENCIES; TONAL SIGNAL;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAMMALS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WHITE NOISE;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOCOENA; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 70349130399     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3177274     Document Type: Article

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