Informational factors in identifying environmental sounds in natural auditory scenes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3147-3155

  Leech, Robert ^a   Gygi, Brian ^b   Aydelott, Jennifer ^c   Dick, Frederic ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b East Bay Institute for Research and Education   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACTIVE PROCESS; BACKGROUND SCENES; COGNITIVE FACTORS; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENCE; POP-OUT EFFECT; REAL-WORLD; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; TARGET AND BACKGROUND;

TARGETS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MASKING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549099550     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238160     Document Type: Article

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