Spectral modulation masking patterns reveal tuning to spectral envelope frequency

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1004-1013

  Saoji, Aniket A ^a   Eddins, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TUNING;

SPECTRAL ENVELOPE FREQUENCY; SPECTRAL MODULATION DOMAIN;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMANS; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34547642312     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2751267     Document Type: Article

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