Contextual effects in the identification of nonspeech auditory patterns

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3926-3938

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Richards, Virginia M ^b   Streeter, Timothy ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Huang, Rong ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PATTERNS; CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS; FREQUENCY PATTERNS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; NARROW BANDS; NEURAL RESPONSE; PATTERN IDENTIFICATION; TARGET FREQUENCIES; TONE BURSTS;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858299797     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3658442     Document Type: Article

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