Role of suppression and retro-cochlear processes in comodulation masking release

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3843-3852

  Ernst, Stephan M A ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE (CMR); HYPOTHESIS; ON-FREQUENCY MASKER (OFM); RETRO-COCHLEAR PROCESSES; WIDEBAND INHIBITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; FLANKING BAND; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ON FREQUENCY MASKER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; HEARING; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 33845358009     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2361183     Document Type: Article

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