Probing the natural scene by echolocation in bats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2010, Pages

  Moss, Cynthia F ^a   Surlykke, Annemarie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Action perception; Auditory scene analysis; Hearing; Neuroethology; Stream segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878988934     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00033     Document Type: Review

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