The effects of decreased audibility produced by high-pass noise masking on cortical event-related potentials to speech sounds /ba/ and /da/

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1585-1599

  Martin, Brett A ^a,b   Sigal, Alain ^a   Kurtzberg, Diane ^a   Stapells, David R ^a,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0031050412     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418146     Document Type: Article

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