Features of across-frequency envelope coherence critical for comodulation masking release

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2455-2466

  Buss, Emily ^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; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; ENVELOPE FEATURE; ON DYNAMICS; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL PEAK;

EXPERIMENTS; MODULATION;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449367475     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3224708     Document Type: Article

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