Suppression and comodulation masking release in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 300-309

  Ernst, Stephan M A ^a,b   Rennies, Jan ^a,c   Kollmeier, Birger ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^c FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; DATA SUPPORT; DETECTABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREQUENCY REGIONS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NONLINEAR PROCESSING; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 77955222639     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3397582     Document Type: Article

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