Individual differences in the sensitivity to pitch direction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3907-3915

  Semal, Catherine ^a   Demany, Laurent ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FREQUENCY DIFFERENCE LIMENS; PITCH DIRECTION;

AUDITION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCE LIMEN; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845371339     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2357708     Document Type: Article

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