| Description |
x, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Aquatic Mammals as Subjects of Experimental Studies -- The Physical Properties of Water as a Sensory Medium -- Acoustics -- Optics -- Psychophysical Measurement Procedures -- The Operant Conditioning Method -- Conditioned Reflex -- The Statistical Basis for Threshold Evaluation -- Data-Collection Procedures -- Hearing in Cetaceans -- Ear Morphology -- Outer Ear and Middle Ear -- Inner Ear and Peripheral Neurons -- Auditory Evoked Potentials in Cetaceans -- Intracranial Evoked Potentials -- Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) -- Noninvasively Recorded Cortical Evoked Responses -- Rhythmic Evoked Potentials -- Contribution of Various Frequency Bands to ABR -- Evoked-Potential Procedures in Hearing Measurements -- ABR Threshold Measurements -- EFR and RFR Threshold Measurements -- Hearing Sensitivity and Frequency Range -- Psychophysical Data -- Evoked-Potential Data -- Temporal Resolution -- Psychophysical Studies -- Dependence of ABR on Stimulus Duration -- ABR Recovery at Double-Click Stimulation -- Gap-in-Noise Detection Measurements -- Derivation of the Temporal Transfer Function of the Auditory System -- Rhythmic Amplitude-Modulation Test and Modulation Transfer Function -- Rhythmic Click Test -- Frequency Tuning -- Critical Ratios and Critical Bands -- Tuning Curves -- Notch-Noise Masking -- Frequency-Discrimination Limens -- Frequency Resolving Power -- Sound-Intensity Discrimination -- Directional Sensitivity, Spatial, and Binaural Hearing -- Psychophysical Studies -- Directional Sensitivity: Evoked-Potential Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) |
| Subject |
Aquatic mammals -- Physiology.
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Senses and sensation.
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| Author |
Popov, Vladimir V.
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Mass, A. M. (Alla Mikhaĭlovna)
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| LC no. |
2001022995 |
| ISBN |
079237357X alkaline paper |
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9780792373575 alkaline paper |
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