Auditory/visual distance estimation: Accuracy and variability

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Anderson, Paul W ^a   Zahorik, Pavel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Multimodal; Sound localization; Spatial hearing; Virtual sound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907190132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01097     Document Type: Article

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