Children's detection of pure-tone signals: Informational masking with contralateral maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3297-3305

  Wightman, Frederic L ^a   Callahan, Michael R ^a   Lutfi, Robert A ^a   Kistler, Doris J ^a   Oh, Eunmi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTER; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0038282750     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1570443     Document Type: Article

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