Can measures of sound localization acuity be related to the precision of absolute location estimates?

Hearing Research

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 94-109

  Moore, Jordan M ^a   Tollin, Daniel J ^a   Yin, Tom C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory space map; Cat; Minimum audible angle (MAA)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALCULATION; CAT; DATA ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEARING ACUITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 40849136124     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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