Effect of masker harmonicity on informational masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 706-709

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0033872709     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429603     Document Type: Article

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