Spectro-temporal factors in two-dimensional human sound localization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 2634-2648

  Hofman, Paul M ^a   Van Opstal, A John ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SACCADES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031813079     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.422784     Document Type: Article

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