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Figure 4 (Experiment 4)
Fig. 4. Effect of interstimulus interval. In all conditions, the target sounds (shown in red) were presented six times.
Experiment 4 stimulus examples
There are two examples of each condition. In all cases the probe is the target. As the target spacing increases, the target becomes harder to hear, and it becomes harder to tell that the probe sound was the same as the target.
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