Sex differences in simultaneous masking with random-frequency maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2547-2550

  Neff, Donna L ^a   Kessler, Christina J ^a   Dethlefs, Theresa M ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0029797358     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417364     Document Type: Article

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