Investigating possible mechanisms behind the effect of threshold fine structure on amplitude modulation perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2490-2500

  Heise, Stephan J ^a   Mauermann, Manfred ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LEVELS; DETECTION TASKS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; FINE STRUCTURES; LARGE PARTS; LOW LEVEL; MODULATION DEPTH; MODULATION DETECTION; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; SINUSOIDAL AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITION; RESONANCE;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449432622     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3224731     Document Type: Article

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