Auditory masking: Need for improved conceptual structure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1787-1790

  Durlach, Nat ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MASKING; CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONCEPT FORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 33749570135     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2335426     Document Type: Article

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