Enhancing and unmasking the harmonics of a complex tone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2142-2157

  Hartmann, William M ^a   Goupell, Matthew J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR EXCITATIONS; EXCITATION PATTERN; PULSED HARMONICS; UNMASKING;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY UNMASKING; COCHLEA; HARMONICS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 33749546717     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2228476     Document Type: Article

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