The relationship between concurrent speech segregation, pitch-based streaming of vowel sequences, and frequency selectivity

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 317-327

  Gaudrain, Etienne ^a,d   Grimault, Nicolas ^a   Healy, Eric W ^b   Béra, Jean Christophe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LABTAU   (France)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; NORMAL HEARING; SPEECH SEGREGATION; TIME-REVERSED;

AUDITION; LINGUISTICS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84857817893     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918515     Document Type: Article

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