Results of simultaneous notched-noise masking are commonly interpreted as reflecting the
bandwidth of underlying auditory filters. This interpretation assumes that listeners detect a …

Psychoacoustic masking experiments have been widely used to investigate cochlear
function in human listeners. Here we use simultaneous notched-noise masking experiments …

Tone-in-noise detection tasks with reproducible noise maskers have been used to identify
cues that listeners use to detect signals in noisy environments. Previous studies have shown …

The masking level difference (MLD) for a narrowband noise masker is associated with
marked individual differences. This pair of studies examines factors that might account for …

Zeng et al.[Hear. Res. 5 5, 223–230 (1991)] reported that at moderate levels there is an
increase in the intensity jnd for 25‐ms sinusoidal pedestals presented 100 ms after an …

Consonant identification was measured for normal-hearing listeners using Vowel–
Consonant–Vowel stimuli that were either unprocessed or spectrally degraded to force …

In experiment 1 NoSo and NoSπ thresholds for a 500-Hz pure tone were obtained in a low-
fluctuation masking noise and a high-fluctuation masking noise for six normal-hearing …

The present study sought to clarify the role of non-simultaneous masking in the binaural
masking level difference for maskers that fluctuate in level. In the first experiment the signal …

Forward masking is generally greater for Gaussian noise (GN) than for low-fluctuation noise
maskers, ie, GN disruption. Because the minimal hearing loss that is associated with older …

Part of the detrimental effect caused by a stationary noise on sound perception results from
the masking of relevant amplitude modulations (AM) in the signal by random intrinsic …