Masking by inaudible sounds and the linearity of temporal summation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 8767-8773

  Plack, Christopher J ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b   Drga, Vit ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Auditory; Hearing; Psychophysics; Summation; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748285619     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1134-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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