Psychophysical estimates of nonlinear cochlear processing in younger and older listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3823-3833

  Gifford, René H ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

COCHLEAR NONLINEARITY; NONLINEAR PROCESSING; PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASURES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 29244433520     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2126933     Document Type: Article

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