Auditory spatial resolution in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal planes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1009-1022

  Grantham, D Wesley ^a   Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a   Erpenbeck, Eric A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FREQUENCIES;

AUDITORY SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTICS;

MEDICAL APPLICATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MINIMUM AUDIBLE ANGLE THRESHOLD; MINIMUN AUDIBLE MOVEMENT ANGLE THRESHOLD; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0042569072     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1590970     Document Type: Article

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