Detection of increments and decrements in sinusoids as a function of frequency, increment, and decrement duration and pedestal duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2954-2965

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Peters, Robert W ^b,c  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030666673     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420350     Document Type: Article

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