The acoustical bright spot and mislocalization of tones by human listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1440-1449

  MacAulay, Eric J ^a   Hartmann, William M ^a   Rakerd, Brad ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATED; BRIGHT SPOTS; EAR CANAL; FREE FIELDS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMAN LISTENERS; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCES; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY; LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; MISLOCALIZATION; NARROW BANDS; NON-MONOTONIC FUNCTION;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; EAR CANAL; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 77950448322     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3294654     Document Type: Article

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