Psychophysical evidence for auditory compression at low characteristic frequencies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1574-1586

  Plack, Christopher J ^a   Drga, Vit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCY;

AUDITION;

COMPRESSED AIR;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COMPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TECTORIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0037337001     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1538247     Document Type: Article

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