Sensitivity of human subjects to head-related transfer-function phase spectra

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2821-2840

  Kulkarni, Abhijit ^a,b   Isabelle, S K ^a,c   Colburn, H S ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Bose Corporation   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032916878     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426898     Document Type: Article

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