Directional loudness in an anechoic sound field, head-related transfer functions, and binaural summation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2965-2980

  Sivonen, Ville Pekka ^a,b   Ellermeier, Wolfgang ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Bruel & Kjaer Danmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; HEARING AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DIRECTIONAL LOUDNESS; DIRECTIONAL SENSITIVITY; SOUND INCIDENCE ANGLE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEAD; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33646455896     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2184268     Document Type: Article

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