A quantitative analysis of spectral mechanisms involved in auditory detection of coloration by a single wall reflection

Hearing Research

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 192-203

  Buchholz, Jörg M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL SUMMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960239439     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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