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Journal of Computational Neuroscience

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Superposition of masking releases

verfasst von: Bastian Epp, Jesko L. Verhey

Erschienen in: Journal of Computational Neuroscience | Ausgabe 3/2009

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We are constantly exposed to a mixture of sounds of which only few are important to consider. In order to improve detectability and to segregate important sounds from less important sounds, the auditory system uses different aspects of natural sound sources. Among these are (a) its specific location and (b) synchronous envelope fluctuations in different frequency regions. Such a comodulation of different frequency bands facilitates the detection of tones in noise, a phenomenon known as comodulation masking release (CMR). Physiological as well as psychoacoustical studies usually investigate only one of these strategies to segregate sounds. Here we present psychoacoustical data on CMR for various virtual locations of the signal by varying its interaural phase difference (IPD). The results indicate that the masking release in conditions with binaural (interaural phase differences) and across-frequency (synchronous envelope fluctuations, i.e. comodulation) cues present is equal to the sum of the masking releases for each of the cues separately. Data and model predictions with a simplified model of the auditory system indicate an independent and serial processing of binaural cues and monaural across-frequency cues, maximizing the benefits from the envelope comparison across frequency and the comparison of fine structure across ears.

Vorheriger Artikel Synchronization properties of networks of electrically coupled neurons in the presence of noise and heterogeneities

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The IPD of 144° originates from a geometrical approximation of the travel distance of the sound wave, resulting in a number of multiples of \(\frac{1}{25}\pi\). The intermediate IPD between 0° and 144° were generated by halving this IPD.

Another approach commonly used in psychoacoustic models is to calculate the signal-plus-noise-to-noise ratio, i.e. the ratio of the model output for the combination of signal and noise and for the noise alone. If this ratio exceeds a certain critical value, the signal is assumed to be detected (Fletcher 1940; Ewert and Dau 2000; Oxenham 2001; Plack et al. 2002). To adapt such an approach to a 3AFC procedure as used here, one can use model output of the signal interval compared to the maximum of the output to the noise intervals (Ernst and Verhey 2006).

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Titel: Superposition of masking releases
verfasst von: Bastian Epp
Jesko L. Verhey
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2009
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Computational Neuroscience / Ausgabe 3/2009
Print ISSN: 0929-5313
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6873
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-008-0118-2

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