Separate contributions of enhanced and suppressed sensitivity to the auditory attentional filter

Hearing Research

Volumn 241, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 18-25

  Tan, Michael N ^a   Robertson, Donald ^a   Hammond, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a Univetsity of Western Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimasking; Attention; Auditory; Cuing; Detection; Olivocochlear

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 45649083895     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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