Individual differences in auditory abilities

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 418-435

  Kidd, Gary R ^a   Watson, Charles S ^a   Gygi, Brian ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY ABILITIES; EQUATION MODELING; SOUND RECOGNITION;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLECT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547465807     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2743154     Document Type: Article

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