The perception of FM sweeps by Chinese and English listeners

Hearing Research

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 75-83

  Luo, Huan ^a,b   Boemio, Anthony ^c   Gordon, Michael ^b   Poeppel, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; FM direction selectivity; FM discrimination; FM identification; Signal detection; Temporal threshold; Tone language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846380288     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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