Informational masking by everyday sounds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3521-3528

  Oh, Eunmi L ^a   Lutfi, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND;

EID: 0032760962     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428205     Document Type: Article

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