The effect of better-ear glimpsing on spatial release from masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2937-2945

  Glyde, Helen ^a,b,c   Buchholz, Jörg ^a,c   Dillon, Harvey ^a,c   Best, Virginia ^a,c   Hickson, Louise ^a,b   Cameron, Sharon ^a,c  

^a University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FILTERS; BINAURAL SIGNALS; CO-LOCATED; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; TIME FREQUENCY; YOUNG ADULTS;

AUDITION; FREQUENCY BANDS;

SEPARATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885398155     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4817930     Document Type: Article

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