Theories of visual attention argue that attention operates on perceptual objects, and thus
that interactions between object formation and selective attention determine how competing …

Animals often use acoustic signals to communicate in groups or social aggregations in
which multiple individuals signal within a receiver's hearing range. Consequently, receivers …

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 …

Listeners in complex auditory environments can benefit from the ability to use a variety of
spatial and spectrotemporal cues for sound source segregation. Probing these abilities is an …

Spatial release from masking was studied in a three-talker soundfield listening experiment.
The target talker was presented at 0 azimuth and the maskers were either colocated or …

This study aims to explore how the soundscape quality of traffic noise environments can be
improved by the masking effects of birdsong in terms of four soundscape characteristics, ie …

Cocktail parties and other natural auditory environments present organisms with mixtures of
sounds. Segregating individual sound sources is thought to require prior knowledge of …

This study examined spatial release from masking (SRM) when a target talker was masked
by competing talkers or by other types of sounds. The focus was on the role of interaural time …

In auditory scenes containing many similar sound sources, sorting of acoustic information
into streams becomes difficult, which can lead to disruptions in the identification of …

If spatial attention acts like a “spotlight,” focusing on one location and excluding others, it
may be advantageous to have all targets of interest within the same spatial region. This …