Efficient coding in human auditory perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1312-1320

  Ming, Vivienne L ^a   Holt, Lori L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PROCESSING; CHANNEL NOISE; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; EFFICIENT ENCODING; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SIGNAL PROCESS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STATISTICAL REGULARITY; THEORETICAL MODELING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MAMMALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349100862     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3158939     Document Type: Article

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