Distortion products and their influence on representation of pitch-relevant information in the human brainstem for unresolved harmonic complex tones

Hearing Research

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 26-34

  Smalt, Christopher J ^a   Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Bidelman, Gavin M ^b   Ananthakrishnan, Saradha ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865471849     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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