Detectability of auditory signals presented without defined ...

Ability to detect tones in noise was measured without defined observation intervals. Latency density functions were estimated for the first response ... Home > TheJournaloftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica > Volume59,Issue3 > 10.1121/1.380915 Prev Next NoAccess PublishedOnline:04June1998 TheJournaloftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica59,655(1976); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.380915 CharlesS.WatsonCentralInstitutefortheDeafandWashingtonUniversity,St.Louis,Missouri63110ThomasL.NicholsFoodSciencesLaboratory,U.S.ArmyNatickLaboratories,Natick,Massachusetts01760more...ViewContributorsCharlesS.WatsonThomasL.Nichols PDF CHORUS Abstract Citedby Tools DownloadCitation AddtoFavorites ReprintsandPermissions E-mail Facebook Linkedin Twitter Reddit Mendeley RecommendtoLibrarian Share E-mail Facebook Linkedin Twitter Reddit Mendeley RecommendtoLibrarian metrics 27 Views Topics Topics Probabilitytheory Acousticnoise Energydetector ABSTRACTAbilitytodetecttonesinnoisewasmeasuredwithoutdefinedobservationintervals.Latencydensityfunctionswereestimatedforthefirstresponsefollowingasignaland,separately,forthefirstresponsefollowingrandomlydistributedinstancesofbackgroundnoise.Detectionperformancewasmeasuredbythemaximumseparationbetweenthecumulativelatencydensityfunctionsforsignal‐plus‐noiseandfornoisealone.Valuesofd′,estimatedbythisprocedure,wereapproximatelythoseobtainedwitha2‐dBweakersignalanddefinedobservationintervals.Simulationofdefined‐andnondefined‐intervaltaskswithanenergydetectorshowedthatthisdeviceperformsverysimilarlytothehumanlistenerinbothcases.SubjectClassification:[43]65.58,[43]65.75,[43]65.50,[43]65.68.©1976AcousticalSocietyofAmerica.false ArticleMetrics Views 27 Citations Crossref 27 WebofScience ISI 33 Altmetric PleaseNote:ThenumberofviewsrepresentsthefulltextviewsfromDecember2016todate.ArticleviewspriortoDecember2016arenotincluded.