Psychometric functions for pure tone intensity discrimination: Slope differences in school-aged children and adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1050-1058

  Buss, Emily ^a   Hall III, Joseph W ^a   Grose, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION MODELS; INTENSITY DISCRIMINATIONS; INTERNAL NOISE; NORMAL HEARINGS; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; PURE TONES; SIGNAL LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TWO STAGES;

FUNCTIONS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTOMETERS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849110193     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3050273     Document Type: Article

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