Psychophysical tuning curves at very high frequencies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2498-2506

  Yasin, Ifat ^a,b   Plack, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDIO SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES (CF); HEARING-THRESHOLD CURVE; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING CURVES (PTC); SIGNAL FREQUENCIES;

TUNING;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIDDLE EAR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING CURVE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; TONOTOPY; TUNING CURVE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; EAR, MIDDLE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND;

EID: 26844491207     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2035594     Document Type: Article

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