Musical training, individual differences and the cocktail party problem

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Swaminathan, Jayaganesh ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Streeter, Timothy M ^a   Best, Virginia ^a   Kidd, Gerald ^a   Patel, Aniruddh D ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MUSIC; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MUSIC; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933556634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11628     Document Type: Article

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