Identification of stimulus cues in narrow-band tone-in-noise detection using sparse observer models

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 447-463

  Schönfelder, Vinzenz H ^a,c   Wichmann, Felix A ^b,d,e  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^d Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL DEPENDENCES; AUDITORY FEATURE; AUDITORY STIMULI; BEHAVIORAL DATA; PERCEPTUAL WEIGHTS; SEQUENTIAL DEPENDENCIES; SOUND ENVELOPES; SUMMARY STATISTIC;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATOMIC PHYSICS; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

DETECTORS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 84880479086     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4807561     Document Type: Article

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