Auditory sketches: Very sparse representations of sounds are still recognizable

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Isnard, Vincent ^a,b   Taffou, Marine ^a   Viaud Delmon, Isabelle ^a   Suied, Clara ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EXCITATION; FILTRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NOISE; RECOGNITION; SINGING; SOUND; VOICE; ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961151698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150313     Document Type: Article

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