Developmental changes in the precedence effect: Estimates of minimum audible angle

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1739-1745

  Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0030750997     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420106     Document Type: Article

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