The effects of broadband noise masking on cortical event-related potentials to speech sounds /ba/and/da/

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 218-231

  Whiting, Katherine A ^a,b   Martin, Brett A ^a   Stapells, David R ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031802731     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199806000-00005     Document Type: Article

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