Virtual localization improved by scaling external-ear transfer functions in frequency

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1493-1510

  Middlebrooks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; EAR CANAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0032819173     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427147     Document Type: Article

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