title: Psychophysical studies of auditory masking in marine mammals: key concepts and new directions.
abstract: Current models of auditory masking in marine mammals oversimplify hearing in realistic environments. Systematic and progressive experiments using psychoacoustic methods will help us move "out of the ideal and in to the real" to gain a more complete view of potential auditory-masking effects in these animals.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA. coll@ucsc.edu
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reichmuth
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D004777:Environment; D006309:Hearing; D006802:Human Activities; D008322:Mammals / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011571:Psychoacoustics