Detection of silent intervals between noises activating different perceptual channels: Some properties of 'central' auditory gap detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3694-3705

  Phillips, D P ^a   Taylor, T L ^a   Hall, S E ^a   Carr, M M ^a   Mossop, J E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030919139     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419376     Document Type: Article

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