Psychometric functions for informational masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 3273-3282

  Lutfi, Robert A ^a,b   Kistler, Doris J ^a,c   Callahan, Michael R ^a,d   Wightman, Frederic L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d EPIC SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; AUDITION; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS (PF);

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; FILTER; FUNCTION TEST; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MALE; MASKING; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0347478222     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1629303     Document Type: Article

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