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Learning and generalization on five basic auditory discrimination tasks as assessed by threshold changes

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Auditory Signal Processing

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Wright, B.A., Fitzgerald, M.B. (2005). Learning and generalization on five basic auditory discrimination tasks as assessed by threshold changes. 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_62

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