Abstract
Chapter 6 defines detectors that are ideal with respect to sensitivity for a variety of detection situations; the situations differ in the amount of information that the detector is assumed to have signal parameters. The explicit, quantitative models specified in this way are compared with human performance in Chapter 7. Specifically, the shapes of psychometric functions that increment-detection experiments are compared with predictions from two models, one involving a cross correlation process and the other an envelope-detection process, is discussed in more detail in a separate chapter; Chapter 8 presents the statistics of this model and results of its application to a variety of psychoaccoustic data.