Informational masking increases the costs of monitoring multiple channels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Richards, Virginia M ^b   Mason, Christine R ^a   Gallun, Frederick J ^c   Huang, Rong ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR REHABILITATIVE AUDITORY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS;

FILTERED NOISE; FREQUENCY REGIONS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MULTI-TONE; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; SIGNAL CONDITIONING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 53949084031     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2968302     Document Type: Article

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