Effect of source spectrum on sound localization in an everyday reverberant room

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 324-333

  Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND-LIMITED NOISE; BINAURAL ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY NOISE; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ROOM; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOURCE SPECTRUM; VIRTUAL SOUND SOURCES;

EXPERIMENTS; REVERBERATION; THERMAL NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 79960675325     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3596476     Document Type: Article

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