Detection and F0 discrimination of harmonic complex tones in the presence of competing tones or noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1493-1505

  Micheyl, Christophe ^a   Bernstein, Joshua G W ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDPASS FILTERS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HARMONIC COMPLEX TONES (HCT); NOISE MASKERS; PRERIPHERAL HARMONIC RESOLABILITY; TARGET-TO-MASKER RATIOS (TMR);

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 33748571548     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2221396     Document Type: Article

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