Efficient coding and statistically optimal weighting of covariance among acoustic attributes in novel sounds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stilp, Christian E ^a   Kluender, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEARING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUND; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856143970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030845     Document Type: Article

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