The effect of signal-temporal uncertainty on detection in bursts of noise or a random-frequency complex

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bonino, Angela Yarnell ^a   Leibold, Lori J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NOISES; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; METHOD OF CONSTANT STIMULUS; TEMPORAL UNCERTAINTIES;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 56749101648     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2993745     Document Type: Article

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