The role of across-frequency processes in dichotic listening conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3188-3198

  Nitschmann, Marc ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL MASKING-LEVEL DIFFERENCES; BROADBAND MASKER; CHANNEL EFFECT; CHANNEL PROCESS; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DIOTIC NOISE; FREQUENCY PROCESS; NARROW BANDS; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MASKING; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549110095     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3243307     Document Type: Article

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