Binaural comodulation masking release: Effects of masker interaural correlation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3878-3888

  Hall III, Joseph W ^a   Buss, Emily ^a   Grose, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CORRELATION METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BINAURAL COMODULATION MASKING; INTERAURAL CORRELATION; MASKER INTERAURAL CORRELATION; ON SIGNAL MASKING BAND (OSB);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 33845358945     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2357989     Document Type: Article

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