Stimulus uncertainty and insensitivity to pitch-change direction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3026-3037

  Mathias, Samuel R ^a   Micheyl, Christophe ^b   Bailey, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; PITCH CHANGES; PURE TONES; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS;

AUDITION; FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956233625     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3365252     Document Type: Article

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