Detection of the break in interaural correlation is affected by interaural delay, aging, and center frequency

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 300-309

  Huang, Ying ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; FINE STRUCTURES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH-FREQUENCY NOISE; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; NARROW-BAND NOISE; NORMAL HEARING; OLDER ADULTS; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SOURCE; TEMPORAL DECLINE; WIDEBAND NOISE;

THERMAL NOISE;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PRESBYCUSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149087407     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3147504     Document Type: Article

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