Multiple bursts, multiple looks, and stream coherence in the release from informational masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2835-2845

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Richards, Virginia M ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

MULTIPLE BURSTS;

ACOUSTICS;

AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0242524409     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1621864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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