The impact of early reflections on binaural cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-27

  Gourévitch, Boris ^a,b   Brette, Romain ^a,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BINAURAL CUES; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; POLAR ANGLES; REALISTIC MODEL; REFLECTED SIGNAL; REFLECTING SURFACE; SMALL ANIMAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SOURCE; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPHERICAL MODELS;

ANIMALS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EAR; GERBIL; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CUES; EAR; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84863645614     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4726052     Document Type: Article

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