Spectral information for detection of acoustic time to arrival

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 738-750

  Gordon, Michael S ^a   Russo, Frank A ^a   MacDonald, Ewen ^b  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Audition; Motion in depth; Perception and action

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME;

EID: 84876572099     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0424-2     Document Type: Article

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