An observational study of the precedence effect

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 440-456

  Hacihabiboǧlu, Hüseyin ^a,b   Murtagh, Fionn ^a,c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUDITORY EVENT; LAG DISCRIMINATION SUPPRESSION ASPECTS; SPECTRALLY COHERENT LEAD-LAG STIMULUS;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33745423667     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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