An Evaluation of Psychophysical Models of Auditory Change Perception

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1069-1083

  Micheyl, Christophe ^a   Kaernbach, Christian ^b   Demany, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

auditory perception; change perception; discrimination; signal detection theory; threshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 56149102511     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013572     Document Type: Article

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