Auditory search asymmetry between pure tone and temporal fluctuating sounds distributed on the frontal-horizontal plane

Acta Acustica (Stuttgart)

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 346-354

  Asemi, Noriaki ^a   Sugita, Yoichi ^b   Suzuki, Yôiti ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Neuroscience Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; AUDITION; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEADPHONES; LOUDSPEAKERS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MODULATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUDITORY SEARCH ASYMMETRY; FRONTAL-HORIZONTAL PLANE; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; PURE TONE; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATING SOUNDS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 0041322853     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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