Effect of gating the masker on frequency-selective listening

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 1816-1818

  Buus, Søren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; LETTER;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025765932     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.401015     Document Type: Letter

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