Localization dominance in the median-sagittal plane: Effect of stimulus duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3142-3155

  Dizon, Roberto M ^a   Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BINAURAL CUES; LOCALIZATION; MEDIAM-SAGITTAL PLANES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2942632929     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1738687     Document Type: Article

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