Influence of age, spatial memory, and ocular fixation on localization of auditory, visual, and bimodal targets by human subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 441-455

  Dobreva, Marina S ^a   O'Neill, William E ^a,b   Paige, Gary D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing; Eye movements; Multi sensory integration; Presbycusis; Sound localization; Spatial memory; Visual localization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871307091     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3270-x     Document Type: Article

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