Effect of variability in level on forward masking and on increment detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 325-337

  Jesteadt, Walt ^a   Schairer, Kim S ^a   Neff, Donna L ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DEMODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FORWARD MASKING; INCREMENT DETECTOR; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TWO-INTERVAL-FORCED-CHOICE (2IFC);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 22144467692     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1928709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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