Effectiveness of narrow-band versus tonal off-frequency maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 380-385

  Savel, Sophie ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCIES;

NARROW-BAND NOISE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; NOISE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NARROW BAND NOISE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037490790     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1582442     Document Type: Article

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