Modulation masking produced by beating modulators

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 908-918

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Sek, Aleksander ^a,b   Glasberg, Brian R ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MASKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032769767     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427106     Document Type: Article

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