The advantage of knowing where to listen

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3804-3815

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Arbogast, Tanya L ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Gallun, Frederick J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

HIGHLY UNCERTAIN MULTITASKER LISTENING SITUATION; SPATIAL LOCATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 29244442934     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2109187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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