Masking by modulated and unmodulated noise: Effects of bandwidth, modulation rate, signal frequency, and masker level

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1600-1610

  Bacon, Sid P ^a   Lee, Jungmee ^a   Peterson, Daniel N ^a   Rainey, Dawne ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031056562     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418175     Document Type: Article

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