Discrimination of changes in the spectral shape of noise bands

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2264-2275

  Versfeld, Niek J ^a  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030813096     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419599     Document Type: Article

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