Effects of peripheral nonlinearity on psychometric functions for forward-masked tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1560-1573

  Schairer, Kim S ^a   Nizami, Lance ^a   Reimer, Jason F ^a,b   Jesteadt, Walt ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0037336284     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1543933     Document Type: Article

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