Binaural Masking: An Analysis of Models

Abstract

The goal of this program of research has been to specify auditory processing in the presence of noisy backgrounds. A variety of experimental and modeling approaches have been employed to examine this processing. Overall the results suggest the importance of spectral and temporal comparisons in signal detection and suggest that similar processing underlies monaural and binaural detection. The introduction of masker energy in temporal intervals that did not overlap with the signal could be shown to either enhance or degrade detection performance, depending on the interaural parameters of the stimuli. Experiments on remote masking and suppression showed excitatory and inhibitory effects that extended across more than an octave. These results are being used to evaluate a nonlinear model of cochlear processing. The responses of subjects to individual stimuli (reproducible noise samples) were highly correlated between monaural and binaural conditions that had seemed dramatically different when the ensemble performance was considered (i.e., data averaged across noise samples).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 21, 1991
Accession Number
ADA244392

Entities

People

  • Robert H. Gilkey

Organizations

  • Central Institute for the Deaf

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Amplitude
  • Bandwidth
  • Computers
  • Cross Correlation
  • Delay Lines
  • Detection
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Intensity
  • Phase Transformations
  • Psychology
  • Shape
  • Signal Detection
  • Transfer Functions
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.