Hearing sensation levels of emitted biosonar clicks in an echolocating atlantic bottlenose dolphin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Li, Songhai ^a,c,d   Nachtigall, Paul E ^a   Breese, Marlee ^a   Supin, Alexander Ya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CLICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMITTED BIOSONAR CLICK; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; RECORDING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SENSATION; SOUND;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SENSATION; SOUND;

EID: 84855453807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029793     Document Type: Article

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