Temporal masking of multidimensional tactual stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 3295-3308

  Tan, Hong Z ^a   Reed, Charlotte M ^b   Delhorne, Lorraine A ^b   Durlach, Nathaniel I ^b   Wan, Natasha ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

FIXED-FREQUENCY SINUSOIDAL MOTIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL TACTUAL STIMULI; TEMPORAL MASKING;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ERROR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL MASKING;

DEAFNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSORY AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0347478223     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1623788     Document Type: Article

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