near miss

in hearing studies, a small deviation from Weber’s law in which the Weber fraction for intensity discrimination decreases over a wide range of intensities of the standard. The near miss is observed for sounds with a restricted bandwidth and is thought to result from nonlinear growth of excitation in the cochlea.

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December 18th 2024

corticostriatonigral degeneration

see corticobasal ganglionic degeneration.