The benefit of practice for sound localization without sight

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-241

  Abel, Sharon M ^a   Shelly Paik, J E ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; Practice effects; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND PROOF BOOTH;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0344943941     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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