Sensitivity to time interval changes in speech and tone conditions

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 720-728

  Grondin, Simon ^a   Bisson, Nicolas ^a   Gagnon, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interval discrimination; Language; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959725518     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0063-9     Document Type: Article

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