The role of suppression in psychophysical tone-on-tone masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 361-369

  Rodríguez, Joyce ^a   Neely, Stephen T ^a   Patra, Harisadhan ^a   Kopun, Judy ^a   Jesteadt, Walt ^a   Tan, Hongyang ^a   Gorga, Michael P ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; FORWARD-MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; SIMULTANEOUS MASKING;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; AUDITION; DISTORTION (WAVES);

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949090649     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257224     Document Type: Article

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