The effects of low- and high-frequency suppressors on psychophysical estimates of basilar-membrane compression and gain

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2832-2841

  Yasin, Ifat ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

MASKER-SIGNAL INTERVALS; SIGNAL FREQUENCY; SINUSOIDAL MASKER; TEMPORAL MASKING CURVES (TMC);

PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34247897201     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2713675     Document Type: Article

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