An energetic limit on spatial release from masking

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 603-610

  Best, Virginia ^a,b   Thompson, Eric R ^a,c   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd, Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

binaural; hearing loss; spatial unmasking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; MASKING; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880295231     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-013-0392-1     Document Type: Article

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