| 单词 | auditory scanning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasauditory scanning 3. auditory scanning: the emission of short pulses of sound and detection of echoes from nearby objects, thought to be used by dolphins for the location and ranging of submerged objects. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > delphinus delphis (dolphin) > auditory scanning auditory scanning1960 1960 W. N. Kellogg in Psychol. Record X. 26 Since the noises which make up the echoes are emitted by the dolphin itself, the activity as a whole amounts to a kind of scanning by sound. We suggest the term auditory scanning, therefore, as a good name for both the acoustic and the general behavior comprising this elaborate pattern of activity. 1963 Language 39 464 The dolphin's auditory scanning is shown to consist of the emission of a continuous series of sound signals for echolocation plus binaural localization. < as lemmas |
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