Frequency discrimination learning in children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4393-4402

  Halliday, Lorna F ^a,b   Taylor, Jenny L ^a   Edmondson Jones, A Mark ^a   Moore, David R ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; DISCRIMINATORS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; PURE TONES; TRAINING SESSIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

APPARATUS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 44949209477     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2890749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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