Monaural and interaural intensity discrimination: Level effects and the "binaural advantage

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1149-1159

  Stellmack, Mark A ^a   Viemeister, Neal F ^a   Byrne, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FUNCTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INTERAURAL INTENSITY DIFFERENCES (IID); WEBER'S LAW;

ACOUSTICS;

AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CONFERENCE PAPER; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 4043054318     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1763971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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