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A wave observed in the auditory brainstem responses (ABR), sensitive to the side of sound presentation, is described in a dolphin (Inia geoffrensis). Dependence of the wave threshold on location of the sound source showed that the interaural intensity difference was more than 20 dB.
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Supin, A.Y., Popov, V.V. & Klishin, V.O. Electrophysiological study of interaural sound intensity difference in the dolphinInia geoffrensis. Experientia 47, 937–938 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01929885
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