The role of suppression in the upward spread of masking

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 368-377

  Yasin, Ifat ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compression; Masking; Psychoacoustics; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 33644977981     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-005-0014-7     Document Type: Article

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