An assessment of response bias for the same-different task: Implications for the single-interval task

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 844-860

  Hautus, Michael J ^a   Collins, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0142228164     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194819     Document Type: Article

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