Noise tolerance in human frequency-following responses to voice pitch

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Li, Ximing ^a   Jeng, Fuh Cherng ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BRAINSTEM; FREQUENCY ERRORS; NOISE TOLERANCE; PITCH PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SLOPE ERRORS; STIMULUS INTENSITY; TRACKING ACCURACY; TURNING POINTS; VOICE PITCH;

AUDITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551664523     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3528775     Document Type: Article

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