12: Auditory Masking Patterns in Bottlenose Dolphins From Anthropogenic and Natural Noise Sources
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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.e., less than four minutes). Behavioral thresholds are measured using a psychophysical technique, such as modified up/down adaptive staircase. The procedure for estimating masked thresholds is identical to a standard behavioral hearing test except masking noise is played continuously during the threshold estimation procedure.
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Auditory Masking Patterns in Bottlenose Dolphins from Anthropogenic and Natural Sound Sources
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