Individual differences in the masking level difference with a narrowband masker at 500 or 2000 Hz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 411-419

  Buss, Emily ^a   Hall III, Joseph W ^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; BANDPASS FILTERS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BINAURAL TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MASKING LEVEL DIFFERENCE (MLD); NOISE MASKER; TONAL SIGNALS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING LEVEL DIFFERENCE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33846216863     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2400849     Document Type: Article

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