Informational masking for simultaneous nonspeech stimuli: Psychometric functions for fixed and randomly mixed maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2482-2497

  Durlach, Nathaniel I ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Gallun, Frederick J ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara ^a   Colburn, H Steven ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS; BANDWIDTH;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM); MASKERS; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION MASKING; MALE; MODEL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZATION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 26844481813     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2032748     Document Type: Article

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