How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same
time? This review summarizes widespread research in psychoacoustics, auditory scene …

Humans and other animals can attend to one of multiple sounds and follow it selectively
over time. The neural underpinnings of this perceptual feat remain mysterious. Some studies …

Objective: To investigate the effect of musical training on speech-in-noise (SIN)
performance, a complex task requiring the integration of working memory and stream …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

A common complaint among listeners with hearing loss (HL) is that they have difficulty
communicating in common social settings. This article reviews how normal-hearing listeners …

Target speaker identification is essential for speech enhancement algorithms in assistive
devices aimed toward helping the hearing impaired. Several recent studies have reported …

“Normal hearing” is typically defined by threshold audibility, even though everyday
communication relies on extracting key features of easily audible sound, not on sound …

The ASA Press imprint represents a collaboration between the Acoustical Society of America
and Springer dedicated to encouraging the publication of important new books in acoustics …

Activity in the primary auditory cortex (A1) is essential for normal sound localization
behavior, but previous studies of the spatial sensitivity of neurons in A1 have found broad …

Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where
intelligibility might be compromised–at least for some listeners–by adverse conditions …