The influence of spatial separation on divided listening

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1506-1516

  Best, Virginia ^a   Gallun, Frederick J ^a   Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COSTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ANGULAR SEPARATIONS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL SEPARATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

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

EID: 33748529027     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2234849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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