Psychological Methods for Evaluating Sound Quality and Assessing Acoustic Information

Acustica

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 765-774

  Guski, Rainer ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

SOUND QUALITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE COMPATIBILITY EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 0031221936     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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