Despite over 100 years of study, there are still many fundamental questions about binaural
hearing that remain unanswered, including how impairments of binaural function are related …

Within the cochlea, broadband sounds like speech and music are filtered into a series of
narrowband signals, each with a relatively slowly varying envelope (ENV) imposed on a …

Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms,
Third Edition explains the physical and perceptual processes that are involved in sound …

Introducing pleasant natural sounds to mask urban noises is an important soundscape
design strategy to improve acoustic comfort. This study investigates the effects of signal-to …

Many studies have investigated the effects of water sound on soundscape with an
assumption that target noise coincides with the masker (co-location), while no attention has …

Cubick and Dau [(2016). Acta Acust. Acust. 102, 547–557] showed that speech reception
thresholds (SRTs) in noise, obtained with normal-hearing listeners, were significantly higher …

Spatial Release from Masking (SRM) was measured for identification of a female target word
spoken in the presence of male masker words. Target words from a single loudspeaker …

This study investigates the effect of spatial release from masking (SRM) in bilateral bone
conduction (BC) stimulation at the mastoid. Nine adults with normal hearing were tested to …

Purpose This review provides clinicians with an overview of recent findings relevant to
understanding why listeners with normal hearing thresholds (NHTs) sometimes suffer from …

Purpose Listeners with hearing loss, as well as many listeners with clinically normal hearing,
often experience great difficulty segregating talkers in a multiple-talker sound field and …