Detectability of simultaneously masked signals as a function of masker bandwidth and configuration for different signal delays

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 420-429

  Wright, Beverly A ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031012729     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417987     Document Type: Article

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