The role of level, spectral, and temporal cues in children's detection of masked signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2997-3005

  Allen, Prudence ^a   Jones, Rhiannon ^a   Slaney, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031762044     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423882     Document Type: Article

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