The effects of a high-frequency suppressor on tuning curves and derived basilar-membrane response functions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 322-332

  Yasin, Ifat ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; LINEARIZATION; TUNING;

TUNING CURVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CASE REPORT; FORCE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0037490800     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1579003     Document Type: Article

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