Reduction of internal noise in auditory perceptual learning

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 970-981

  Jones, Pete R ^a   Moore, David R ^a   Amitay, Sygal ^a   Shub, Daniel E ^b  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL ENCODING;

AUDITORY LEARNING; CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY; ENCODING EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; GAUSSIAN RANDOM VARIABLE; INTERNAL NOISE; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION;

AUDITION;

EID: 84873362787     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4773864     Document Type: Article

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