Effects of age and background noise on processing a mistuned harmonic in an otherwise periodic complex sound

Hearing Research

Volumn 283, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 126-135

  Alain, Claude ^a,b,c   McDonald, Kelly ^a   Van Roon, Patricia ^a  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856605347     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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