Enhancing sensitivity to interaural time differences at high modulation rates by introducing temporal jitter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2511-2521

  Goupell, Matthew J ^a   Laback, Bernhard ^a   Majdak, Piotr ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVES; BAND PASS; BRAINSTEM; FIRING PATTERNS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; INTERPULSE INTERVAL; MODULATION RATES; PULSE RATE; PULSE TIMING; PULSE TRAIN; SPECTRAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL JITTER;

LOCOMOTIVES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RAILROAD CARS; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

JITTER;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449380105     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3206584     Document Type: Article

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