Measurement and validation of human HRTFs for use in hearing research

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 429-439

  Wightman, Fred ^a   Kistler, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HEADPHONES; HEARING AIDS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY STIMULI; FFT ALGORITHMS; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (HRTF); VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE (VAS);

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 19544387622     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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