Binaural processing of modulated interaural level differences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1017-1029

  Thompson, Eric R ^a   Dau, Torsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEADPHONES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BINAURAL TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MODULATION DETECTION THRESHOLDS; MODULATION FREQUENCY; PSYCHOACOUSTIC METHODS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HEARING; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 38849115815     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821800     Document Type: Article

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