Segregation of complex acoustic scenes based on temporal coherence

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Teki, Sundeep ^a   Chait, Maria ^b   Kumar, Sukhbinder ^a,c   Shamma, Shihab ^d,e   Griffiths, Timothy D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSE OF COHERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ACOUSTICS; MARKOV CHAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84880745714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00699     Document Type: Article

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