Temporal gap detection measured with multiple sinusoidal markers: Effects of marker number, frequency, and temporal position

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 2 I, 1998, Pages 984-998

  Formby, C ^a   Sherlock, L P ^a   Li, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031855581     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423313     Document Type: Article

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