Frequency and amplitude discrimination along the kinesthetic-cutaneous continuum in the presence of masking stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2789-2800

  Israr, Ali ^a   Tan, Hong Z ^a   Reed, Charlotte M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

AMPLITUDE THRESHOLDS; CHANNEL INDEPENDENCE; SENSATION LEVELS (SL); WEBER FRACTIONS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VIBRATION SENSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 33750304717     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354022     Document Type: Article

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