Monaural level discrimination under dichotic conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4421-4433

  Shub, Daniel E ^a,b,c   Durlach, Nathaniel I ^a,b   Colburn, H Steven ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(2+1) DIMENSIONS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); BINAURAL MODELS;

TARGETS;

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949147119     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2912828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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