Frequency modulation detection: Effects of age, psychophysical method, and modulation waveform

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 467-477

  He, Ning Ji ^a   Mills, John H ^a   Dubno, Judy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY AGING; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; UNMODULATED CYCLE;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; STIMULUS; AGE; AGING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547464340     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2741208     Document Type: Article

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