Threshold for Thermal Noise as a Function of Duration and Interruption Rate
- 1 February 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 29 (2), 281-283
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1908856
Abstract
Experi-ments are reported on temporal summation at threshold for thermal noise. Durations from 1 to 850 msec and repetition rates from 1 to 100/sec were used. Results show that threshold decreases as a function of duration for all repetition rates. Thresholds also decrease as a function of repetition rate, though the effect of repetition rate is not so marked as that of duration, and becomes even less so at long durations.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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