The measurement problem in level discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2158-2167

  Shepherd, Daniel ^a   Hautus, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY LEVEL DISCRIMINATION; PEDESTAL LEVELS; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE;

EID: 34047256237     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2697628     Document Type: Article

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