Gap duration discrimination for frequency-asymmetric gap markers: Psychophysical and electrophysiological findings

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 446-457

  Grose, John H ^a   Hall, Joseph W ^a   Buss, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; ROBUST CONTROL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

GAP DURATION; GAP MARKERS; PRIMARY TONE;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547399671     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2735106     Document Type: Article

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