An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

Temporal integration involves combining information over time to improve detection or
discrimination. In psychoacoustic work temporal integration is often thought of and modeled …

Between 3 and 6 per cent of children who are otherwise unimpaired have extreme
difficulties producing and understanding spoken language1. This disorder is typically …

Speech is the primary vehicle of human social interaction. In everyday life, speech
communication occurs under an enormous range of different environmental conditions. The …

Two pairs of experiments studied the effects of attention and of unilateral neglect on auditory
streaming. The first pair showed that the build up of auditory streaming in normal participants …

Phenomena resembling tinnitus and Zwicker phantom tone are seen to result from an
auditory gain adaptation mechanism that attempts to make full use of a fixed-capacity …

Under some conditions, threshold for a brief tone is higher at the onset of a broadband
masker than it is if it is delayed from the onset of the masker. Evidence suggests that this …

The mammalian auditory system includes a brainstem-mediated efferent pathway from the
superior olivary complex by way of the medial olivocochlear system, which reduces the …

In certain situations, preceding auditory stimulation can actually result in heightened
sensitivity to subsequent sounds. Many of these phenomena appear to be generated in the …

The preceding chapters have described the physical aspects of the sound field (frequency,
level, and time), how those physical attributes are processed by the peripheral auditory …