Explaining high-frequency hearing

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2080-2082

  Heffner, Rickye ^a   Heffner, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; EVOLUTION; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; INNER EAR; LETTER; MIDDLE EAR; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COCHLEA; EAR, INNER; HEAD; HEARING; HEARING TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 78649695790     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21292     Document Type: Letter

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