Method-of-adjustment measures of informational masking between auditory streams

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sheft, Stanley ^a   Yost, William A ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM); PULSE RATE; SEGREGATION (BENEFICIATION); SIGNAL PULSES; SINUSOIDAL COMPONENTS; STREAM SEGREGATION;

RIVERS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 47649126154     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2918786     Document Type: Article

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