The role of spectral modulation cues in virtual sound localization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 302-314

  Qian, Jinyu ^a   Eddins, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW PASS FILTERS; NOTCH FILTERS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL MODULATION CUES; VIRTUAL SOUND LOCALIZATION (VSL);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 37849005231     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2804698     Document Type: Article

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