Perception of echo delay is disrupted by small temporal misalignment of echo harmonics in bat sonar

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 394-401

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

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosonar; Clutter interference; Echo delay; Echo spectrum; Echolocating bat; FM harmonics; Lowpass filtering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ORIENTATION; SOUND; ULTRASONICS;

EPTESICUS;

EID: 79251492061     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.048983     Document Type: Article

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