Context effects in the discriminability of spatial cues

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-328

  Maier, Julia Kerstin ^a,b,c,d   McAlpine, David ^c   Klump, Georg M ^d   Pressnitzer, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory; Binaural adaptation; Human; Psychoacoustics; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BINAURAL HEARING; DICHOTIC LISTENING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954758558     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-009-0200-0     Document Type: Article

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