Estimates of effective frequency selectivity based on the detection of a tone added to complex maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1574-1584

  Richards, Virginia M ^a   Tang, Zhongzhou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FILTER SHAPES; COMPLEX MASKERS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; POWER SPECTRUM MODEL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY HOPPING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 33644654602     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2165001     Document Type: Article

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