Behavioral measures of auditory streaming in ferrets (Mustela putorius)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-330

  Ma, Ling ^a   Micheyl, Christophe ^b   Yin, Pingbo ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b   Shamma, Shihab A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Detection; Ferrets; Frequency discrimination; Streaming

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FERRET; HEARING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FERRETS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 77955794357     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018273     Document Type: Article

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