Bats' avoidance of real and virtual objects: Implications for the sonar coding of object size

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-67

  Goerlitz, Holger R ^a   Genzel, Daria ^a   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosonar; Echolocation; Echoscape; Object size; Perception; Sonar aperture

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BAT; ECHO SOUNDER; ECHOLOCATION; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; REAL TIME; SONAR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ORIENTATION;

EID: 82955249164     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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