The psychophysics of absolute threshold and signal duration: A probabilistic approach

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3153-3165

  Meddis, Ray ^a   Lecluyse, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN REDUCTION; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; PERCEPTUAL INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DURATION; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; TWO-VALUED FUNCTIONS;

AUDITION; OPTOMETERS;

FUNCTIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959587230     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3569712     Document Type: Article

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