Psychophysical tuning curves for frequencies below 100 Hz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3166-3180

  Jurado, Carlos ^a,b   Pedersen, Christian S ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FILTERING; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING CURVES; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS;

BANDWIDTH;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; COCHLEA; EAR, MIDDLE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 79959592542     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3560535     Document Type: Article

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