Incidental categorization of spectrally complex non-invariant auditory stimuli in a computer game task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2618-2633

  Wade, Travis ^a,b   Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Posit Science Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUDIO-VISUAL CORRELATIONS; CATEGORIZATION; COMPUTER GAMES; MULTI-MODAL STATISTICAL LEARNING;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ADULT; FEMALE; HEARING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATION; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 26844526516     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2011156     Document Type: Article

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