Bottom-up and top-down influences on spatial unmasking

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 967-979

  Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a   Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Satyavarta, ^a   Larson, Eric ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASKER; PHASE DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL UNMASKING;

COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 30344479971     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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