Auditory Masking Patterns in Bottlenose Dolphins from Anthropogenic and Natural Sound Sources
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12: Auditory Masking Patterns in Bottlenose Dolphins From Anthropogenic and Natural Noise Sources
The primary goal of the current project is to better understand auditory masking by determining masking patterns for a broad variety of environmental noise types, and define the mechanisms that govern auditory signal processing in environmental noise. Behavioral threshold methods developed at SSC San Diego (Finneran, Carder, Schlundt, & Ridgway, 2005) allow thresholds to be obtained rapidly (i....
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