Directional hearing is only weakly dependent on the rise time of acoustic stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 1067-1070

  Krahe, Rüdiger ^a,c   Larsen, Ole Næsbye ^b   Ronacher, Bernhard ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033976403     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428289     Document Type: Article

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