Auditory backward masking and the effect of training in normal hearing adults

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 145-160

  Roth, Daphne Ari Even ^a   Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a   Hildesheimer, Minka ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

auditory backward masking; binaural; monaural; nonsimultaneous masking; simultaneous masking; temporal processing; training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034788049     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2001.12.2.145     Document Type: Article

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