Discrimination and identification of azimuth using spectral shape

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3132-3141

  Shub, Daniel E ^a,b,d   Carr, Suzanne P ^b   Kong, Yunmi ^b,c   Colburn, H Steven ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST FITTINGS; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING LOSSES; HORIZONTAL PLANES; MINIMUM AUDIBLE ANGLES; SHAPE DISCRIMINATIONS; SOURCE LOCATIONS; SPECTRAL SHAPES; THEORETICAL ANALYSES; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

AUDITION; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS;

LOCATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONAURAL HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEEDBACK; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56749184251     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2981634     Document Type: Article

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