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psychology

5.45 psychology. Science of behavior, including the study of such areas as motivation, learning, and...

psychoacoustics

5.44 psychoacoustics. Science that deals with the psychological correlates of the physical parameters of acoustics. Psychoacoustics is a branch of...

point of subjective equality

5.43 point of subjective equality. Measure of central tendency of a distribution of stimulus values that are judged subjectively equal to a reference stimulus under a given set of conditions. The measure, such as median or mode, and the conditions must be...

overshoot masking

5.42 overshoot masking. In simultaneous masking, the difference in decibels between the detectability of a brief signal presented at or very near the onset of a masker and a signal that is delayed relative to the masker...

normal-receiver-operating characteristic

5.41 normal-receiver-operating characteristic. See 5.52 and 5.07, Annotation 1.

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