A comparison of spectral magnitude and phase-locking value analyses of the frequency-following response to complex tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 384-395

  Zhu, Li ^a   Bharadwaj, Hari ^b   Xia, Jing ^b   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; PHASE-LOCKING VALUES; SPECTRAL MAGNITUDES; STATISTICAL POWER; UNRESOLVED HARMONICS;

EXPERIMENTS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEURONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880498239     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4807498     Document Type: Article

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