Effects of external noise on detection of intensity increments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1941-1953

  Jesteadt, Walt ^a   Schairer, Kim S ^a,b   Nizami, Lance ^a   Khaddam, Samar ^a   Neely, Stephen T ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BROADBAND NOISE; COMPRESSION MODEL; DECISION PROCESS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; EXCITATION PATTERN; EXTERNAL NOISE; MASKING EFFECT; MODEL-BASED; NOISE BANDS; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE SPECTRA; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESSURE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350520723     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3203994     Document Type: Article

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