A test of the Binaural Equal-Loudness-Ratio hypothesis for tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3870-3877

  Marozeau, Jeremy ^a   Epstein, Michael ^a   Florentine, Mary ^a   Daley, Becky ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BINAURAL EQUAL-LOUDNESS-RATIO HYPOTHESIS (BELRH); LOUDNESS FUNCTIONS; TONES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL EQUAL LOUDNESS RATIO HYPOTHESIS; BINAURAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LOUDNESS; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; TONE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33845364825     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2363935     Document Type: Article

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