The effect of signal duration on the underwater hearing thresholds of two harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) for single tonal signals between 0.2 and 40 kHz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1135-1145

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

^a Sea Mammal Research Company SEAMARCO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; DETECTION RATES; DETECTION THRESHOLD; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; GO/NO-GO; HARBOR SEALS; HEARING SENSITIVITY; HEARING THRESHOLD; INTEGRATION TIME; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; NUMBER OF CYCLES; PHOCA VITULINA; PURE TONES; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SIGNAL DURATION; STAIRCASE METHOD; STIMULUS LEVELS; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; TIME CONSTANTS; TONAL SIGNAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SIGNAL DETECTION;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TEST; NOISE; PERIODICITY; PHOCA; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERIODICITY; PHOCA; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 76349091348     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3283019     Document Type: Article

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