Age-related changes in within- and between-channel gap detection using sinusoidal stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2316-2326

  Heinrich, Antje ^a,b   Schneider, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FREQUENCIES; SET THEORY;

GAP DETECTION; MARKER DURATIONS; REFERENCE STIMULI;

BIOMARKERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645335758     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2173524     Document Type: Article

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