The perceptual organization of sine-wave speech under competitive conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 804-817

  Roberts, Brian ^a   Summers, Robert J ^a   Bailey, Peter J ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ELEMENTS; AMPLITUDE CHARACTERISTICS; CONSTANT FREQUENCY CONTOURS; ENERGETIC MASKING; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SINE-WAVE; SPEECH SIGNALS; TIME-VARYING FREQUENCY;

COMPETITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING; HEARING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955814279     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3445786     Document Type: Article

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