Temporal properties of perceptual calibration to local and broad spectral characteristics of a listening context

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3597-3613

  Alexander, Joshua M ^a   Kluender, Keith R ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BROAD SPECTRAL; HARMONIC COMPLEXES; PERCEPTUAL MECHANISM; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL TILT; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TIME COURSE; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

CALIBRATION;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CUES; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952159602     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3500693     Document Type: Article

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