Influences of modulation and spatial separation on detection of a masked broadband target

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2236-2250

  Kopčo, Norbert ^a,b   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; ISOMERS; SEPARATION; TARGETS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROAD BAND NOISE; DETECTABILITY; MODULATION CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES; SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPATIAL UNMASKING;

MODULATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949091453     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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