Masker phase effects in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners: Evidence for peripheral compression at low signal frequencies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 2248-2257

  Oxenham, Andrew J ^a   Dau, Torsten ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BANDWIDTH; HARMONIC GENERATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

HARMONIC MASKERS; HEARING IMPAIRED LISTENERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MASKING; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEA; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 6344229306     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1786852     Document Type: Article

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