Properties of low-frequency head-related transfer functions in the barn owl (Tyto alba)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 196, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 601-612

  Hausmann, Laura ^a   von Campenhausen, Mark ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Auditory; Interaural level difference; Interaural time difference; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HEARING; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; HEARING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 77956061619     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0546-0     Document Type: Article

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