The audibility of important sounds is often hampered due to the presence of other masking
sounds. The present study investigates if a correlate of the audibility of a tone masked by …

The neural representation and perceptual salience of tonal signals presented in different
noise maskers were investigated. The properties of the maskers and signals were varied …

Why are humans so art-prone, why do we love to sing, dance, tell stories, create visual
images and beautify our environment? In the last two decades, a number of authors have …

Introduction Hearing ability is usually evaluated by assessing the lowest detectable intensity
of a target sound, commonly referred to as a detection threshold. Detection thresholds of a …

Several masking experiments have shown that the auditory system is able to use coherent
envelope fluctuations of the masker across frequency within one ear as well as differences …

In a complex auditory scene, signals of interest can be distinguished from masking sounds
by differences in source location [spatial release from masking (SRM)] and by differences …

Experiment 1 examined comodulation masking release (CMR) for a 700-Hz tonal signal
under conditions of N o S o (noise and signal interaurally in phase) and N o S π (noise in …

Normal-hearing listeners can perceptually segregate concurrent sound sources, but
listeners with significant hearing loss or who wear a Cochlear Implant (CI) lag behind in this …

The amount of masking of sounds from one source (signals) by sounds from a competing
source (maskers) heavily depends on the sound characteristics of the masker and the signal …

The auditory system uses various signal properties to separate a target signal from
background noise. When a target tone is preceded by a noise, the threshold for target …