Amplitude modulation detection as a function of modulation frequency and stimulus duration: Comparisons between macaques and humans

Hearing Research

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 37-43

  O'Connor, Kevin N ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a   Niwa, Mamiko ^a   Noriega, Nigel C ^a   Marshall, Elizabeth A ^a   Sutter, Mitchell L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960219623     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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