Effects of vehicle horn acoustic properties on auditory impressions and the interpretation of reasons for horn use by other drivers1)

Noise Control Engineering Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-272

  Takada, Masayuki ^a   Takeno, Ayako ^a   Iwamiya, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 77955592083     PISSN: 07362501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3397/1.3383097     Document Type: Article

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