Precursor effects on behavioral estimates of frequency selectivity and gain in forward masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2172-2181

  Jennings, Skyler G ^a   Strickland, Elizabeth A ^a   Heinz, Michael G ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVITY; BASILAR MEMBRANES; BEST FREQUENCIES; BREAK POINTS; FORWARD-MASKING; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITIES; GROWTH OF MASKING; INPUT-OUTPUT FUNCTIONS; PRECURSOR EFFECTS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING CURVES; REDUCTION MODELS; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES;

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEA; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFLEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649095226     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3081383     Document Type: Article

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