The spatial unmasking of speech: Evidence for within-channel processing of interaural time delay

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3069-3078

  Edmonds, Barrie A ^a   Culling, John F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DELAY CIRCUITS; MASKS; TARGETS;

INTERAURAL TIME DELAY (ITD); LOW-FREQUENCY BANDS; SPATIAL UNMASKING; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT);

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BINAURAL HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18744403404     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1880752     Document Type: Article

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