The effect of spatial separation of signal and noise on masking in the free field as a function of signal frequency and age in the mouse

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 1689-1695

  Ison, James R ^a   Agrawal, Punit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; SIGNAL FREQUENCY; SIGNAL TO NOISE LEVEL DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL SEPARATORS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING LOSS; HYPOTHESIS; MASKING; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0032168954     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424381     Document Type: Article

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