Perception of suprathreshold amplitude modulation and intensity increments: Weber's law revisited

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2220-2236

  Wojtczak, Magdalena ^a   Viemeister, Neal F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC NOISE; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTENSITY INCREMENTS; PATTERN RESEMBLING; SUPRATHRESHOLD MODULATION DEPTHS; WEBER'S LAW;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; LOUDNESS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 41849126741     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839889     Document Type: Article

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