Pitch and timbre interfere when both are parametrically varied

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Caruso, Valeria C ^a,c   Balaban, Evan ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PITCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907031377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087065     Document Type: Article

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