Note on informational masking (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2984-2987

  Durlach, Nathaniel I ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Arbogast, Tanya L ^a   Colburn, H Steven ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THEORY;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0012323283     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1570435     Document Type: Article

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