Sound quality characteristics of refrigerator noise in real living environments with relation to psychoacoustical and autocorrelation function parameters

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 314-325

  Sato, Shin Ichi ^a   You, Jin ^a   Jeon, Jin Yong ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHANGE OF PITCH; FUNCTION PARAMETERS; REAL LIVING ENVIRONMENTS; SOUND QUALITY;

REFRIGERATORS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRIGERATOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EMOTION; FREEZING; HOUSING; INSTRUMENTATION; KOREA; OSCILLOMETRY; PERCEPTION; PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EMOTIONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; KOREA; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; OSCILLOMETRY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRESSURE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFRIGERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547404878     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2739440     Document Type: Article

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