Effects of low-pass noise masking on auditory event-related potentials to speech

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-213

  Martin, Brett A ^a   Stapells, David R ^b  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BEHAVIOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; LOW PASS NOISE MASKING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 16844368641     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-200504000-00007     Document Type: Article

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