Adaptive psychophysical procedures and imbalance in the psychometric function

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 528-536

  Saberi, Kourosh ^a,b   Green, David M ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030059081     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415865     Document Type: Article

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