Quadratic-compression model of auditory discrimination and detection

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 980-991

  Neely, Stephen T ^a   Jesteadt, Walt ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

PSYCHOACOUSTIC TASKS; QUADRATIC-COMPRESSION MODEL; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 30344469094     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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