The role of individualized headphone calibration for the generation of high fidelity virtual auditory space

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3785-3793

  Pralong, Danièle ^a,b,c   Carlile, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0029776608     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417337     Document Type: Article

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