Human auditory discrimination of bottlenose dolphin signature whistles masked by noise: Investigating perceptual strategies for anthropogenic noise pollution

Abstract

No scientific study would be possible without the combined brilliance and labor of a diverse community of researchers, and this is no exception. I would first like to thank all of the members of my committee who generously offered their time and knowledge towards the successful completion of this project. Thank you to my advisor, Dr. Caroline DeLong, for your tireless support in helping sculpt this design, scouring endless pages of statistics, and long hours spent on meticulous revisions. You were there every step of the way, keeping me moving regardless of the innumerable challenges that this project posed. Thank you to Dr. Kirsten Condry for your many insights, especially on how to create and process data from an elaborate repeated measures design. Thank you to Dr. Stephanie Godleski for your instrumental advice when it came to developing effective means by which to address my hypotheses, both methodologically and mathematically. This research was supported by the College of Liberal Arts' Student Research Fund and the RIT Department of Psychology.