The dominant role of low-frequency inter aural time differences in sound localization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 1648-1661

  Wightman, Frederic L ^a   Kistler, Doris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0026734704     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.402445     Document Type: Article

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