Neural system identification model of human sound localization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3 I, 2000, Pages 1215-1235

  Jin, Craig ^a   Schenkel, Markus ^a,b   Carlile, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Supercomputing Systems   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COCHLEA; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EAR; FILTER; MODEL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033813087     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1288411     Document Type: Article

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