Simulated head related transfer function of the phyllostomid bat Phyllostomus discolor

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2123-2132

  De Mey, F ^a   Reijniers, J ^a   Peremans, H ^a   Otani, M ^b   Firzlaff, U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIELD SIMULATIONS; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; INTER-AURAL INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION METHODS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL HEARING;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAT; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR AURICLE; ECHOLOCATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53949097615     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2968703     Document Type: Article

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