Effect of long-term training on sound localization performance with spectrally warped and band-limited head-related transfer functions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2148-2159

  Majdak, Piotr ^a   Walder, Thomas ^a   Laback, Bernhard ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTERING EFFECTS; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TRAINING EFFECTS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDITION;

SOUND REPRODUCTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883421081     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4816543     Document Type: Article

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