Informational masking and musical training

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1543-1549

  Oxenham, Andrew J ^a,b   Fligor, Brian J ^c   Mason, Christine R ^c   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

MUSICAL TRAINING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0043193946     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1598197     Document Type: Article

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