Informational masking caused by contralateral stimulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1594-1603

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Arbogast, Tanya L ^a   Brungart, Douglas S ^b   Simpson, Brian D ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Veridian Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037334934     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1547440     Document Type: Article

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