Spatial unmasking of birdsong in human listeners: Energetic and informational factors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3766-3773

  Best, Virginia ^a   Ozmeral, Erol ^a   Gallun, Frederick J ^a   Sen, Kamal ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING; INTERFERING SOUNDS; SPATIAL SEPARATION MASK; SPATIAL UNMASKING;

ACOUSTICS;

AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SINGING; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FINCHES; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 29244444195     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2130949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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