Effects of masker-spectral variability and masker fringes in children and adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3666-3676

  Leibold, Lori J ^a,b   Neff, Donna L ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PEDIATRICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHILDREN; MASKER FRINGES; MASKER SPECTRAL VARIABILITY;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEARING; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249914766     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2723664     Document Type: Article

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