Adaptive threshold estimation with unforced-choice tasks

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1377-1388

  Kaernbach, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035522501     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194549     Document Type: Article

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