Effects of background noise level on behavioral estimates of basilar-membrane compression

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3018-3025

  Gregan, Melanie J ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BASILAR MEMBRANES; BROADBAND NOISE; COMPRESSIVE RESPONSE; FORWARD-MASKING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; INPUT-OUTPUT FUNCTION; MASKING NOISE; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SOUND PROCESSING; SUPRATHRESHOLD;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956238831     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3365311     Document Type: Article

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