Human time-frequency acuity beats the fourier uncertainty principle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Oppenheim, Jacob N ^a   Magnasco, Marcelo O ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY OBJECTS; AUDITORY PROCESSING; FOURIER; HUMAN ABILITIES; LINEAR FILTERS; LOWER BOUNDS; TIME FREQUENCY; UNCERTAINTY LIMITS; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLES;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 84873049817     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.044301     Document Type: Article

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