Differences in loudness of positive and negative Schroeder-phase tone complexes as a function of the fundamental frequency

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1028-1039

  Mauermann, Manfred ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

FREQUENCY BANDS; HEARING-IMPAIRED SUBJECTS; LOUDNESS; NORMAL HEARING SUBJECTS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846656592     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2409772     Document Type: Article

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