Evaluating the effects of olivocochlear feedback on psychophysical measures of frequency selectivity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2483-2496

  Jennings, Skyler G ^a   Strickland, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVITY; FILTER BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; MODEL SIMULATION; OUTER HAIR CELL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASURES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING CURVES; SHORT SIGNAL; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; STANDARD CONDITIONS;

BANDWIDTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFLEX; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867362482     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742723     Document Type: Article

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