Excitation produced by schroeder-phase complexes: Evidence for fast- acting compression in the auditory system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3636-3647

  Carlyon, Robert P ^a   Datta, A Jaysurya ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATTENTION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NERVE FIBERS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0031006258     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418324     Document Type: Article

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