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Auditory thresholds re-visited

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Heil, P., Neubauer, H. (2005). Auditory thresholds re-visited. In: Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., Collet, L. (eds) Auditory Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27045-0_56

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