Binaural signal detection, overall masking level, and masker interaural correlation: Revisiting the internal noise hypothesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3850-3860

  Bernstein, Leslie R ^a   Trahiotis, Constantine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES; BINAURAL SIGNALS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; EXTERNAL NOISE; INTERNAL NOISE; LEVEL DIFFERENCES; MASKING NOISE; SPECTRUM LEVELS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60049094130     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2996340     Document Type: Article

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