Encoding Sound Timbre in the Auditory System

IETE Journal of Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 145-156

  Shamma, Shihab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATION INDEX; AUDITORY ADAPTATIONS; AUDITORY PERCEPTS; AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; COCHEAR ANALYSIS; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATION INDEX; TIMBRE;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0041941417     PISSN: 03772063     EISSN: 0974780X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2003.11416333     Document Type: Article

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