The influence of stimulus intensity and inter-stimulus interval on the detection of pitch and loudness changes

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 517-526

  Schröger, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; auditory sensory memory; change detection; event related potentials; mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 85047677697     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(96)95576-8     Document Type: Article

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