The information-divergence hypothesis of informational masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2160-2170

  Lutfi, Robert A ^a   Gilbertson, Lynn ^a   Heo, Inseok ^a   Chang, An Chieh ^a   Stamas, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIATION; INFORMATION DIVERGENCE; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MAJOR FACTORS; PATTERN DISCRIMINATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883336850     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4817875     Document Type: Article

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