Comparison of relative and absolute sound localization ability in humans

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1085-1097

  Recanzone, Gregg H ^a   Makhamra, Samia D D R ^a,b   Guard, Darren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031887123     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421222     Document Type: Article

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