A practical prediction method of psychological response to arbitrary non-white random noise based on simplified patterns of membership functions

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-174

  Yamaguchi, Shizuma ^a   Saeki, Tetsuro ^a   Kato, Yuichi ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KURE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set theory; Membership function; Non white noise; Psychological response

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTICAL STIMULUS; NON WHITE RANDOM NOISE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030168440     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-682X(96)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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