Psychometric functions for pure-tone frequency discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 263-272

  Dai, Huanping ^a   Micheyl, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; LAPSE RATE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; POWER FUNCTIONS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY INDICES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TEMPORAL MODELS;

FREQUENCY STANDARDS; OPTOMETERS;

AUDITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960670695     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3598448     Document Type: Article

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