Perception of across-frequency asynchrony and the role of cochlear delays

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 363-377

  Wojtczak, Magdalena ^a   Beim, Jordan A ^a   Micheyl, Christophe ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONY; DECISION-THEORETIC; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LOW FREQUENCY; PROCESSING STAGE; RELATIVE TIMING; SYNCHRONOUS RESPONSE;

EXPERIMENTS;

GROUP DELAY;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855925840     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3665995     Document Type: Article

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