Individual differences in external-ear transfer functions reduced by scaling in frequency

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1480-1492

  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; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR CANAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0032845319     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427176     Document Type: Article

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