Psychometric functions for gap detection in a yes-no procedure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3512-3520

  Florentine, Mary ^a   Buus, Søren ^b   Geng, Wei ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032783945     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428204     Document Type: Article

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