Effects of the selective disruption of within- and across-channel cues to comodulation masking release

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2866-2873

  Goldman, Simon A ^a   Baer, Thomas ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81355153944     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3643814     Document Type: Article

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