Dolphin hearing during echolocation: Evoked potential responses in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2027-2035

  Li, Songhai ^a   Nachtigall, Paul E ^a   Breese, Marlee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

AEP response; Automatic gain control; Biosonar; Hearing; Outgoing click

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HAWAII;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 79957635011     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.053397     Document Type: Article

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