Louder sounds can produce less forward masking: Effects of component phase in complex tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 978-990

  Gockel, Hedwig ^a,d   Moore, Brian C J ^b   Patterson, Roy D ^a   Meddis, Ray ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCIES;

MASKERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0043069899     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1593065     Document Type: Article

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