A measure of internal noise based on sample discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2147-2157

  Jesteadt, Walt ^a   Nizami, Lance ^a   Schairer, Kim S ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

STANDARD DEVIATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SAMPLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0142121632     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1610456     Document Type: Article

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