Natural auditory scene statistics shapes human spatial hearing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6104-6108

  Parise, Cesare V ^a,b   Knorre, Katharina ^b   Ernst, Marc O ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Cross modal correspondence; Frequency elevation mapping; Head related transfer function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL HEARING; STATISTICS;

BAYESIAN MODELING; CROSS-MODAL CORRESPONDENCE; FREQUENCY-ELEVATION MAPPING; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899068853     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322705111     Document Type: Article

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