Vocal imitations of basic auditory features

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 290-300

  Lemaitre, Guillaume ^a   Jabbari, Ali ^a   Misdariis, Nicolas ^a   Houix, Olivier ^a   Susini, Patrick ^a  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AUDITORY FEATURE; COMPLEX SOUNDS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING ANALYSIS; NARROW-BAND NOISE; PURE TONES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954521435     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4939738     Document Type: Article

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