Perceptual organization of complex auditory sequences: Effect of number of simultaneous subsequences and frequency separation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1742-1759

  Brochard, Renaud ^a,c   Drake, Carolyn ^a   Botte, Marie Claire ^a   McAdams, Stephen ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033254013     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.25.6.1742     Document Type: Article

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