Discriminating harmonicity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 967-977

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Brughera, Andrew ^a   Chiu, Chung Yiu Peter ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HARMONIC COMPLEXES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0042569092     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1587734     Document Type: Article

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