Sound localization in noise: The effect of signal-to-noise ratio

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1108-1117

  Good, Michael D ^a,c   Gilkey, Robert H ^a,b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^c FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030043522     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415233     Document Type: Article

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