Indications for temporal fine structure contribution to co-modulation masking release

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3614-3624

  Pierzycki, Robert H ^a   Seeber, Bernhard U ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; MODULATION MASKING; SINUSOIDAL CARRIERS; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

MODULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952157119     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3500673     Document Type: Article

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