Localization of virtual sound sources with bilateral hearing aids in realistic acoustical scenes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4732-4742

  Mueller, Martin F ^a   Kegel, Andrea ^a   Schimmel, Steven M ^a   Dillier, Norbert ^a   Hofbauer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Phonak AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; BEAMFORMING; EXPERIMENTS; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; SOUND REPRODUCTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FRONT-BACK CONFUSION; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; HEARING AID ALGORITHMS; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VIRTUAL ACOUSTICS; VIRTUAL SOUND SOURCES;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 84866462318     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4705292     Document Type: Article

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