Estimates of basilar-membrane nonlinearity effects on masking of tones and speech

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-17

  Dubno, Judy R ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33846071003     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3180310212     Document Type: Article

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