Interactions between auditory 'what' and 'where' pathways revealed by enhanced near-threshold discrimination of frequency and position

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 958-966

  Tardif, Eric ^a   Spierer, Lucas ^a   Clarke, Stephanie ^a   Murray, Micah M ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Audition; Interaural time difference; Pitch; Psychophysics; Sensitivity; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONRESPONSE BIAS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 39149087648     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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