The problem of perceiving the sounds emanating from a particular sound source becomes
much more difficult when sounds from other independent sources occur at the same time …

Objectives: A common complaint of many older adults is difficulty communicating in
situations where they must focus on one talker in the presence of other people speaking. In …

The ability to understand speech in a multi-source environment containing informational
masking may depend on the perceptual arrangement of signal and masker objects in space …

Identification of target speech was studied under masked conditions consisting of two or four
independent speech maskers. In the reference conditions, the maskers were colocated with …

This study examined combinations of energetic and informational maskers in speech
identification. Speech targets and maskers (speech or noise) were processed and filtered …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on neural processing that may be relevant for
understanding sound-source determination. Mistuning has shown to produce …

Musicians say that the pitches of tones with a frequency ratio of 2: 1 (one octave) have a
distinctive affinity, even if the tones do not have common spectral components. It has been …

Objective Dysphonia is a reduction in vocal quality that impacts communication and is often
an early sign of a voice disorder. There is little information regarding the effects of auditory …

Music is built from sound, ultimately resulting from an elaborate interaction between the
sound-generating properties of physical objects (ie music instruments) and the sound …

The cognitive science of attention has evolved over the past 2 decades to the point that there
are now many well-accepted concepts and methodological approaches available for use in …