Masking release for words in amplitude-modulated noise as a function of modulation rate and task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 269-280

  Buss, Emily ^a   Whittle, Lisa N ^a   Grose, John H ^a   Hall, Joseph W ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; FILTERED SPEECH; HIGH-PASS; MODULATION RATES; MONOSYLLABIC WORDS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OPTIMAL RATE; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITION; HIGH PASS FILTERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149145408     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3129506     Document Type: Article

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