Acoustic and non-acoustic factors in modeling listener-specific performance of sagittal-plane sound localization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Majdak, Piotr ^a   Baumgartner, Robert ^a   Laback, Bernhard ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Head related transfer functions; Listener specific factors; Localization model; Sagittal plane; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899687544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00319     Document Type: Article

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