Effects of frequency disparities on trading of an ambiguous tone between two competing auditory objects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4340-4351

  Lee, Adrian K C ^b   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); AUDITORY OBJECTS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL CUES;

MIXTURES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HEARING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 44949103227     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2908282     Document Type: Article

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