The influence of spread of excitation on the detection of amplitude modulation imposed on sinusoidal carriers at high levels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1008-1016

  Millman, Rebecca E ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EXCITATION PATTERN; HIGH-FREQUENCY RESTRICTORS; SINUSOIDAL CARRIERS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EXCITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 38849164306     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2816575     Document Type: Article

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