Deriving the loudness exponent from categorical judgments

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 804-814

  Norwich, Kenneth H ^a,b   Sagi, Elad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0036635608     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194747     Document Type: Article

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