Vertical-plane sound localization probed with ripple-spectrum noisea

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 430-445

  Macpherson, Ewan A ^a   Middlebrooks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ERRORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SOUND LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENSITY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0038504587     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1582174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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