On the ability to discriminate Gaussian-noise tokens or random tone-burst complexes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2251-2262

  Goossens, Tom ^a   Van De Par, Steven ^b   Kohlrausch, Armin ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAW ENFORCEMENT; TRELLIS CODES;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINABILITY; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; GAUSSIAN; NON-MONOTONIC; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PROCESSING CAPACITIES; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53949123132     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2973184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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