The influence of stimulus envelope and fine structure on the binaural masking level difference

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 2578-2589

  Eddins, David A ^a   Barber, Laura E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONAURAL HEARING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0031840884     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423112     Document Type: Article

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