An evaluation of models for diotic and dichotic detection in reproducible noises

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1906-1925

  Davidson, Sean A ^a   Gilkey, Robert H ^b,c   Colburn, H Steven ^d   Carney, Laurel H ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; BAND FILTERS; COMBINED STIMULI; DECISION VARIABLES; DETECTOR MODELS; FALSE-ALARM RATES; FINE STRUCTURES; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL MODELS;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EAR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350503612     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3206583     Document Type: Article

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