Sensory and nonsensory influences on children's performance of dichotic pitch perception tasks

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3157-3164

  Edwards, Veronica T ^a   Giaschi, Deborah E ^a   Low, Pauline ^a   Edgell, Dorothy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDIO SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SENSORY AIDS; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

CUES; DICHOTIC PITCH; NONSENSORY INFLUENCES; SPATIAL LOCATION;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BINAURAL HEARING; CHILD; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SENSATION;

EID: 18744369344     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1861599     Document Type: Article

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