Combination of spectral and binaurally created harmonics in a common central pitch processor

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Gockel, Hedwig E ^a   Carlyon, Robert P ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dichotic pitch; Diotic pitch; Huggins pitch; Residue pitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BINAURAL COMPONENT; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC PITCH; EAR; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HARMONICS; HEARING; HUGGINS PITCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NOISE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE PITCH; SOUND; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SPECTRAL COMPONENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; EAR; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958102936     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-010-0250-3     Document Type: Article

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