Fine structure of hearing threshold and loudness perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1066-1080

  Mauermann, Manfred ^a   Long, Glenis R ^b,c   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg   (Germany)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

LOUDNESS GROWTH; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4043163377     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1760106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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