Release from informational masking in children: Effect of multiple signal bursts

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2200-2208

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; ENERGY DETECTIONS; FREQUENCY SIGNALS; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649091969     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3087435     Document Type: Article

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