Ambient noise induces independent shifts in call frequency and amplitude within the Lombard effect in echolocating bats

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4063-4068

  Hage, Steffen R ^a,b   Jiang, Tinglei ^a,c   Berquist, Sean W ^a,d   Feng, Jiang ^c   Metzner, Walter ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Audiovocal integration; Lombard speech; Signal masking; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BAT; ECHOLOCATING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; MASKING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84874609782     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211533110     Document Type: Article

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