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A cat’s cocktail party: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational studies of spatial release from masking

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Lane, C.C., Kopco, N., Delgutte, B., Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Colburn, H.S. (2005). A cat’s cocktail party: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational studies of spatial release from masking. In: Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., Collet, L. (eds) Auditory Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27045-0_50

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