Why are natural sounds detected faster than pips?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Suied, Clara ^a   Susini, Patrick ^b   McAdams, Stephen ^c   Patterson, Roy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL STIMULI; PROCESSING TIME; SIMPLE REACTION; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TONE PULSE;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

ANIMALS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77950454492     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3310196     Document Type: Article

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