Evidence of stochastic resonance in an auditory discrimination task may reflect response bias

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1931-1940

  Shepherd, Daniel ^a   Hautus, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; ROC CURVE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 75549091930     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.8.1931     Document Type: Article

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