Learning to discriminate interaural time differences at low and high frequencies

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 585-594

  Rowan, Daniel ^a   Lutman, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 35148888665     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020701524828     Document Type: Article

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