Relative effects of increment and pedestal duration on the detection of intensity increments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2095-2103

  Valente, Daniel L ^a   Patra, Harisadhan ^a,b   Jesteadt, Walt ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION THRESHOLD; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; TWO PARAMETER;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUDITION;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954550902     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3557043     Document Type: Article

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