The intensity-difference limen for Gaussian-enveloped stimuli as a function of level: Tones and broadband noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2505-2515

  Nizami, L ^a   Reimer, J F ^a   Jesteadt, W ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALUMINUM; CABS (TRUCK); NEURONS;

STIMULUS SPECTRUM;

ACOUSTICS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COLLEGE STUDENT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

AUDITORY STIMULI; BROADBAND NOISE; ENCODING MECHANISM; FIRING RATES; GAUSSIANS; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; NEAR-MISSES; SINGLE NEURON;

EID: 0035174890     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1409371     Document Type: Article

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