Solutions to the cocktail party problem in insects: Selective filters, spatial release from masking and gain control in tropical crickets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, Arne K D ^a   Römer, Heiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATRYPA; GAIN CONTROL MECHANISM; INTERNEURON; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PAROECANTHUS PODAGROSUS; SELECTIVE FREQUENCY FILTERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL RELEASE FROM MASKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; INSECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PANAMA; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; INSECTS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; PANAMA; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82755165124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028593     Document Type: Article

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