Interaural correlation discrimination from diffuse field reference correlations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1496-1502

  Walther, Andreas ^a   Faller, Christof ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; DIFFUSE SOUND FIELDS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; JUST-NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NEGATIVE DEVIATIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REFERENCE CONDITION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; PRESSURE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84874880179     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4790473     Document Type: Article

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