Frequency dependency of the relationship between perceived auditory source width and the interaural cross-correlation coefficient for time-invariant stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1337-1350

  Mason, Russell ^a   Brookes, Tim ^a   Rumsey, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

AUDITORY SOURCE WIDTH; INTERAURAL CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (IACC); NARROW-BAND SOUND;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 14844362873     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1853113     Document Type: Article

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