Auditory perception of material is fragile while action is strikingly robust

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1337-1348

  Lemaitre, Guillaume ^a   Heller, Laurie M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; EXPERIMENTS;

MATERIALS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857407500     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3675946     Document Type: Article

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