Estimation of the center frequency of the highest modulation filter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1075-1081

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Füllgrabe, Christian ^a   Sek, Aleksander ^a,b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A CENTERS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; FORWARD-MASKING; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INTERNAL NOISE; MODULATION FILTERS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MODULATION MASKING; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL MODULATIONS; SINUSOIDAL AMPLITUDE MODULATIONS; SINUSOIDAL CARRIERS;

CIVIL AVIATION; FILTER BANKS; MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849111352     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3056562     Document Type: Article

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