Learning in discrimination of frequency or modulation rate: Generalization to fundamental frequency discrimination

Hearing Research

Volumn 184, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 41-50

  Grimault, Nicolas ^a,b   Micheyl, Christophe ^a,c   Carlyon, Robert P ^c   Bacon, Sid P ^d   Collet, Lionel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ENTENDRE Audioprothesists Grp GIPA2   (France)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Modulation rate discrimination; Pitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TRAINING;

EID: 0141638485     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(03)00214-4     Document Type: Article

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