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Guillaume Andéol1, Ewan A Macpherson, Andrew T Sabin

  • 1Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Département Action et Cognition en Situation Opérationnelle, BP 73, 91223 Brétigny sur Orge Cedex, France.

Hearing Research
|June 18, 2013
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Keywords:
DTFHRTFSLTSMFSMTSNRdirectional transfer functionhead related transfer functionsignal-to-noise ratiosound localization thresholdspectral modulation frequencyspectral modulation threshold

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