Physiological responses to the pulsation threshold paradigm. I: Pulsation threshold patterns do not reproduce physiological rate profiles of high-pass and low-pass noise maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 230-242

  Hellstroma, Lisa I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANIMAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0024548557     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.397729     Document Type: Article

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