The effect of masker level uncertainty on intensity discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 254-264

  Buss, Emily ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INTENSITY DISCRIMINATION; MASKER LEVEL UNCERTAINTY; REMOTE MASKERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 37849026690     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2812578     Document Type: Article

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