Lateralization of stimuli with independent fine-structure and envelope-based temporal disparities

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1622-1635

  Dietz, Mathias ^a   Ewert, Stephan D ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; BINAURAL STIMULUS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; FINE STRUCTURES; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCES; INTERAURAL PHASE DIFFERENCES; LATERALIZATION; LINEAR DEPENDENCES; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; SOUND IMAGES; WEIGHTING COEFFICIENTS;

MODULATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 62249189704     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3076045     Document Type: Article

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