Revisiting relations between loudness and intensity discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2098-2102

  Hellman, William S ^a   Hellman, Rhona P ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS; DATA REDUCTION;

BEAT-DETECTION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LOUDNESS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

EID: 0035041526     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1366373     Document Type: Article

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