Effects of bandwidth on auditory localization with a noise masker

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3199-3208

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE LOCATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOW-PASS; SPECTRAL CONTENT; TWO SOURCES;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TARGETS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549113015     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3243309     Document Type: Article

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