The influence of noise type and level upon stochastic resonance in human audition

Hearing Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 136-143

  Ries, Dennis T ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Hearing; Noise; Stochastic resonance; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KERNEL METHOD; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34247470335     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.01.027     Document Type: Article

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