Disentangling the effects of spatial cues on selection and formation of auditory objects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2224-2235

  Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERS; SEPARATION; THEOREM PROVING;

ACROSS TIME; AUDITORY OBJECTS; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; OBJECT SELECTION; SPATIAL ATTENTION; SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL EFFECTS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; TARGET LOCATION;

TARGETS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949086133     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2973185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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