Binaural weighting of pinna cues in human sound localization

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 458-470

  Hofman, P M ^a   Van Opstal, A J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binaural weighting; Eye movements; Human; Pinna; Sound localization; Spectral cues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EXTERNAL EAR; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0037330851     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1320-5     Document Type: Article

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