Auditory filter tuning inferred with short sinusoidal and notched-noise maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2497-2513

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; FILTER TUNING; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; GAIN REDUCTION; INPUT/OUTPUT; MODEL SIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING CURVES;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

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

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867393654     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4746029     Document Type: Article

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