The role of temporal fine structure processing in pitch perception, masking, and speech perception for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired people

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-406

  Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochlear hearing loss; Phase locking; Pitch perception; Speech perception; Temporal fine structure; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MASKING; COCHLEA; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 55949134720     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-008-0143-x     Document Type: Review

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