The role of contrasting temporal amplitude patterns in the perception of speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1676-1688

  Healy, Eric W ^a,b   Warren, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; FREQUENCIES; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037336168     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1553464     Document Type: Article

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