On the minimum audible difference in direct-to-reverberant energy ratio

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 450-461

  Larsen, Erik ^a,b   Iyer, Nandini ^a,c   Lansing, Charissa R ^a   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ENERGY RATIO (ER); GAIN INSIGHT; INTER-AURAL CROSS-CORRELATION (IACC); JUST-NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE (JND); PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; RANK ORDERING; TEMPORAL CUES; WIDE BAND NOISES; WIDE-RANGE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; HEARING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 47649105910     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2936368     Document Type: Article

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