The ability to listen with independent ears

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2814-2825

  Gallun, Frederick J ^a,b   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR REHABILITATIVE AUDITORY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY BANDS;

CONTRALATERAL INTERFERENCE; CONTRALATERAL STIMULATION; EARS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH;

EID: 38049022105     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2780143     Document Type: Article

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