Are Auditory Percepts Determined by Experience?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Monson, Brian B ^a   Han, Shui'Er ^a   Purves, Dale ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; PITCH; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877149424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063728     Document Type: Article

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