Auditory distance perception in humans: A summary of past and present research

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 409-420

  Zahorik, Pavel ^a   Brungart, Douglas S ^b   Bronkhorst, Adelbert W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DATA SETS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL FUNCTIONS; SOUND SOURCES; SPATIAL HEARING;

AUDITION;

EID: 19544369514     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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