Frequency difference limens of pure tones and harmonics within complex stimuli in Mongolian gerbils and humans

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 304-314

  Klinge, Astrid ^a   Klump, Georg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STIMULI; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY SHIFTING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; PHASE CONDITIONS; RANDOM-PHASE; WEBER FRACTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58649110199     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3021315     Document Type: Article

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