Male advantage in sound localization at cocktail parties

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 741-749

  Zündorf, Ida C ^a   Karnath, Hans Otto ^a   Lewald, Jörg ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cocktail party phenomenon; Sex differences; Sound localization; Space perception; Spatial hearing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79954632391     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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