Some comments on informational masking

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 502-512

  Watson, Charles S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BRAIN; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM); PROCESSING ELEMENTS (PE); SENSORY STIMULI; SPEECH SOUNDS;

SPEECH;

EID: 19544379359     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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