Dip listening and the cocktail party problem in grey treefrogs: Signal recognition in temporally fluctuating noise

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1319-1327

  Vélez, Alejandro ^a   Bee, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Cocktail party problem; Dip listening; Gray treefrog; Hyla chrysoscelis; Masking release

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; NOISE; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL; THRESHOLD;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; HYLA; HYLA CHRYSOSCELIS; HYLA VERSICOLOR;

EID: 82355191767     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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