Interaural correlation and the binaural summation of loudness

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3865-3870

  Edmonds, Barrie A ^a,b   Culling, John F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL STIMULI; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LEVEL DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; ENERGY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; LOUDNESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EAR; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649124693     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3120412     Document Type: Article

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