Spectro-temporal processing in the envelope-frequency domain

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2921-2931

  Ewert, Stephan D ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^a,b   Dau, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TONAL CARRIERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ATTENTION; HEARING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036985161     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1515735     Document Type: Article

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