A dominance hierarchy of auditory spatial cues in barn owls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Witten, Ilana B ^a   Knudsen, Phyllis F ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; OWL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; ANIMAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CUES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 77954145731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010396     Document Type: Article

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