Psychophysical measures of auditory nonlinearities as a function of frequency in individuals with normal hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 326-338

  Hicks, Michelle L ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

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

EID: 0032918553     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424526     Document Type: Article

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