Recognition memory was examined for compound tone stimuli comprising 2 single sine-wave tones, and for 2 single tones, in the context of compound-tone comparison stimuli. Identification of a compound tone was highly accurate, but when two separate tones were to be recognized as a combination, recognition accuracy was low.
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