Continuous versus discrete frequency changes: Different detection mechanisms?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1082-1090

  Demany, Laurent ^a   Carlyon, Robert P ^b   Semal, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE-IN; CONTINUOUS FREQUENCIES; DETECTION MECHANISMS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; DISCRETE FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY CHANGES; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; PURE TONES;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849110447     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3050271     Document Type: Article

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