Discrimination of complex synthetic echoes by an echolocating bottlenose dolphin

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 113; no. 2; p. 1138
• Main Authors: Helweg, David A, Moore, Patrick W, Dankiewicz, Lois A, Zafran, Justine M, Brill, Randall L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2003
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Animals; Attention - physiology; Auditory Threshold - physiology; Dolphins - physiology; Echolocation - physiology; Female; Pitch Discrimination - physiology; Psychoacoustics; Sound Spectrography

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) detect and discriminate underwater objects by interrogating the environment with their native echolocation capabilities. Study of dolphins' ability to detect complex (multihighlight) signals in noise suggest echolocation object detection using an approxi...