Characterizing frequency selectivity for envelope fluctuations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3 I, 2000, Pages 1181-1196

  Ewert, Stephan D ^a   Dau, Torsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MODEL; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUNING CURVE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0033813112     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1288665     Document Type: Article

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