Detection of combined changes in interaural time and intensity differences: Segregated mechanisms in cue type and in operating frequency range?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1602-1617

  Furukawa, Shigeto ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BINAURAL PATHWAYS; CHANNEL INTERACTION; SEGREGATED MECHANISMS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

AMPLIFIERS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40749141876     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2835226     Document Type: Article

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