Similar patterns of learning and performance variability for human discrimination of interaural time differences at high and low frequencies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2207-2216

  Zhang, Yuxuan ^a   Wright, Beverly A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FREQUENCY REGIONS; HIGH-FREQUENCY STIMULI; HUMAN DISCRIMINATION; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES (ITD);

AUDITION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; LEARNING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34047263961     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2434758     Document Type: Article

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