Independence and separability in the perception of complex nonspeech sounds

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1900-1915

  Silbert, Noah H ^a   Townsend, James T ^a   Lentz, Jennifer J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549086419     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.8.1900     Document Type: Article

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