Intensity resolution and subjective magnitude in psychophysical scaling

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 793-801

  Ward, Lawrence M ^a   Armstrong, Juliet ^a   Golestani, Narly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0030191433     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213110     Document Type: Article

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