Contributions of suppression and excitation to simultaneous masking: Effects of signal frequency and masker-signal frequency relation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2188-2200

  Gifford, René H ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0034090396     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428499     Document Type: Article

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