Peripheral and central aspects of auditory across-frequency processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1220, Issue , 2008, Pages 246-255

  Ernst, Stephan M A ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Across frequency process; Auditory system; Central auditory processing; Comodulation; Peripheral processing; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 48949119491     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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