Stream segregation with high spatial acuity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3896-3911

  Middlebrooks, John C ^a   Onsan, Zekiye A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-FREQUENCY SOUNDS; HORIZONTAL PLANES; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCES; INTERLEAVED SEQUENCE; LOW-FREQUENCY SOUNDS; MINIMUM AUDIBLE ANGLES; PASS BANDS; SPATIAL ACUITY; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL HEARING; SPECIFIC TASKS; STREAM SEGREGATION;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870891044     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4764879     Document Type: Article

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