On the ability of human listeners to distinguish between front and back

Hearing Research

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 30-46

  Zhang, Peter Xinya ^a,b   Hartmann, William M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chair Emeritus in the Business and Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Front back; Human; Localization; Localization bands; Simulation; Transaural

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73649106153     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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