Effects of filtering of harmonics from biosonar echoes on delay acuity by big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 936-946

  Bates, Mary E ^a   Simmons, James A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; AUDITORY REPRESENTATION; BIG BROWN BATS; BIOSONAR; DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LOW-PASS; NEURONAL RESPONSE;

HIGH PASS FILTERS; MAMMALS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955801931     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3459823     Document Type: Article

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