A model of saliency-based auditory attention to environmental sound

20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, ICA 2010 - Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 3480-3487

  De Coensel, Bert ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUDITORY ATTENTION; AURALIZATIONS; BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; SALIENCY MAP; SOUNDSCAPES; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-PERIODS; TOPDOWN; WORKING MEMORIES;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84869105715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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