Auditory nerve model for predicting performance limits of normal and impaired listeners

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 91-96

  Heinz, Michael G ^a,b   Zhang, Xuedong ^b   Bruce, Ian C ^c   Carney, Laurel H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER GAIN; AUDITORY NERVE (AN); GAMMATONE FILTERS; THRESHOLD FIBERS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TUNING;

AUDITION;

EID: 0001927145     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1387155     Document Type: Article

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