Binaural sluggishness precludes temporal pitch processing based on envelope cues in conditions of binaural unmasking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1067-1074

  Krumbholz, Katrin ^a   Magezi, David A ^a,b   Moore, Rosanna C ^a,b   Patterson, Roy D ^c  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL SYSTEMS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; ENVELOPE FLUCTUATIONS; HARMONIC TONES; INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; PITCH PROCESSING; SOUND STREAMS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; TEMPORAL MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MODULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849116504     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3056557     Document Type: Article

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