Effects of level and background noise on interaural time difference discrimination for transposed stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Dreyer, Anna A ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; COMPUTER MUSIC; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BACKGROUND NOISE; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; TRANSPOSED STIMULI;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BACKGROUND NOISE; BINAURAL HEARING; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SINUSOIDALLY AMPLITUDE MODULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; HEARING; HUMANS; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37849023735     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2820442     Document Type: Article

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