Human sound localization at near-threshold levels

Hearing Research

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 124-134

  Sabin, Andrew T ^a   Macpherson, Ewan A ^a   Middlebrooks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Psychoacoustics; Sound localization; Spatial coding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSATION; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9644281168     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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