Spatial unmasking of nearby pure-tone targets in a simulated anechoic environment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2856-2870

  Kopčo, Norbert ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPATIAL UNMASKING;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; ECHOLOCATION; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0242440788     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1616577     Document Type: Article

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