Frequency Discrimination in the Adapted Ear

Frequency discrimination in the chinchilla.

Chinchillas were trained with shock-avoidance procedures to discriminate or detect pure-tone frequency differences. Inital attempts at determining frequency-difference thresholds utilized a complex discrimination paradigm and a go-no-go response. Although discriminations of large frequency differences were obtained from chinchillas after considerable training, discriminations of small frequency...

Frequency discrimination by the fetus.

The ability to discriminate between acoustic signals of different frequencies is fundamental to the interpretation of auditory information and the development of language perception and production. The fact that the human fetus responds to sounds of different frequencies raises the question of whether the fetus is able to discriminate between them? To investigate whether the fetus has the abili...

Speech Discrimination Ability with Ear Inserts

Spatial frequency discrimination in schizophrenia.

Pathways within the visual system can be distinguished on the basis of selectivity for low or high spatial frequencies. Spatial frequency discrimination was evaluated in 17 medicated male patients with schizophrenia and 19 male control subjects. Subjects were required to discriminate whether pairs of high contrast, sinusoidally modulated gratings were the same or different in spatial frequency....

Adapted Bases of Time-frequency Local Cosines

We develop and analyze a best basis algorithm for orthonormal bases of local cosines which satisfy a uniform bound on their time-frequency concentration. All waveforms are obtained from three elementary window functions by shifts, rescaling, and modulation. For a discrete signal of length N, the complexity is of order N(logN) 2 .