Discrimination of interval size in short tone sequences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2376-2383

  Hill, Toby J W ^a   Summers, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TUNING;

MUSICAL TONES; PITCH; SENSITIVITY INDEX; SHORT TONE SEQUENCES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34047245087     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2697059     Document Type: Article

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