Using a staircase procedure for the objective measurement of auditory stream integration and segregation thresholds

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Spielmann, Mona ^a,b   Schröger, Erich ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^b,c   Pechmann, Thomas ^a   Bendixen, Alexandra ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive method; Auditory scene analysis; Auditory streams; Perceptual grouping; Psychophysics; Streaming; Threshold measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885349040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00534     Document Type: Article

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