A system to simulate and reproduce audio-visual environments for spatial hearing research

Hearing Research

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Seeber, Bernhard U ^a,b   Kerber, Stefan ^b   Hafter, Ervin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audio visual interaction; Auralization; Binaural hearing; Hearing impairment; Room simulation; Virtual acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HEARING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 73649108852     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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