Categorization and discrimination of nonspeech sounds: Differences between steady-state and rapidly-changing acoustic cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1198-1207

  Mirman, Daniel ^a   Holt, Lori L ^a   McClelland, James L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA REDUCTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CONSONANTS; VOWELS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; HUMANS; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4043132375     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1766020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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