Modulation masking produced by second-order modulators

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 2158-2168

  Füllgrabe, Christian ^a,b   Moore, Brian C J ^b   Demany, Laurent ^c   Ewert, Stephan D ^d   Sheft, Stanley ^e   Lorenzi, Christian ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^f INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITION; MODULATORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

DISTORTION COMPONENTS; MODULATION MASKING; PROBE MODULATION DEPTH; SINUSOIDAL AMPLITUDE MODULATION (SAM);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COCHLEA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FILTRATION; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HUMANS; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 17644364443     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1861892     Document Type: Article

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