Auditory stream formation affects comodulation masking release retroactively

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2182-2188

  Dau, Torsten ^a   Ewert, Stephan ^b   Oxenham, Andrew J ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY OBJECTS; COHERENT FLUCTUATIONS; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; NARROW BANDS; PERCEPTUAL GROUPINGS; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS; STREAM FORMATIONS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES;

FORMING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 64649105680     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3082121     Document Type: Article

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