Implicit Versus Explicit Frequency Comparisons: Two Mechanisms of Auditory Change Detection

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 597-605

  Demany, Laurent ^a   Semal, Catherine ^b   Pressnitzer, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory memory; Pitch discrimination; Sequence perception; Temporal binding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954553832     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020368     Document Type: Article

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