Algorithmic modeling of the irrelevant sound effect (ISE) by the hearing sensation fluctuation strength

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-203

  Schlittmeier, Sabine J ^a   Weißgerber, Tobias ^b   Kerber, Stefan ^b   Fastl, Hugo ^b   Hellbrück, Jürgen ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Psychoacoustics; Short term memory; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856171475     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0230-7     Document Type: Article

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