Wideband monaural envelope correlation perception. 2013

Joseph W Hall, and Emily Buss, and John H Grose
Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. jwh@med.unc.edu

This study investigated monaural envelope correlation perception (Richards 1987) for noise bandwidths ranging from 25 to 1,600 Hz. The high-frequency side of the low band was fixed at 3,000 Hz and the low-frequency side of the high band was fixed at 3,500 Hz. When comodulated, the magnitude spectra of the pair of noise bands were either identical or reflected around the midpoint. Six listeners with normal hearing participated. Listeners showed similar performance for identical and reflected-spectrum conditions, with best performance usually occurring for bandwidths between 200 and 800 Hz. Results were considered in terms of envelope comparisons of waveforms at the outputs of multiple peripheral filters or envelope comparisons of waveforms at the outputs of central filters set to the bandwidths of the noise stimuli. Some aspects of the results were incompatible with the account based on multiple peripheral filters. However, the results of a supplementary condition involving the gating of band subregions indicated that this incompatibility could be accounted for by nonoptimal weighting of peripheral filter outputs.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009622 Noise Any sound which is unwanted or interferes with HEARING other sounds. Noise Pollution,Noises,Pollution, Noise
D010470 Perceptual Masking The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness. Masking, Perceptual,Maskings, Perceptual,Perceptual Maskings
D010898 Pitch Perception A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus. Perception, Pitch,Perceptions, Pitch,Pitch Perceptions
D011571 Psychoacoustics The science pertaining to the interrelationship of psychologic phenomena and the individual's response to the physical properties of sound. Psychoacoustic
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000161 Acoustic Stimulation Use of sound to elicit a response in the nervous system. Auditory Stimulation,Stimulation, Acoustic,Stimulation, Auditory
D001307 Auditory Perception The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized, and interpreted by the organism. Auditory Processing,Perception, Auditory,Processing, Auditory
D001309 Auditory Threshold The audibility limit of discriminating sound intensity and pitch. Auditory Thresholds,Threshold, Auditory,Thresholds, Auditory
D013018 Sound Spectrography The graphic registration of the frequency and intensity of sounds, such as speech, infant crying, and animal vocalizations. Sonography, Speech,Sonography, Sound,Speech Sonography,Sonographies, Sound,Sound Sonographies,Sound Sonography,Spectrography, Sound

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