Cues for masked amplitude-modulation detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 978-990

  Nelson, Paul C ^a   Carney, Laurel H ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DECISION THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MASKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ENVELOPE ENERGY; MODULATION MASKERS; PROCESSING MODELS; PSYCHOACOUSTIC MODELS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD SHIFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION VARIABLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 33747063050     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2213573     Document Type: Article

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