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 …

Although many studies have looked at the effects of different listening conditions on the
intelligibility of speech, their analyses have often concentrated on changes to a single value …

The ability to understand speech in a multi-source environment containing informational
masking may depend on the perceptual arrangement of signal and masker objects in space …

Visual and somatosensory spatial attention both induce parietal alpha (8–14​ Hz)
oscillations whose topographical distribution depends on the direction of spatial attentional …

A masker can reduce target intelligibility both by interfering with the target's peripheral
representation (“energetic masking”) and/or by causing more central interference …

Objectives: Listening to speech with multiple competing talkers requires the perceptual
separation of the target voice from the interfering background. Normal-hearing listeners are …

Anthropogenic noise is pervasive and may affect wildlife in many ways. Anthropogenic noise
also adds to the acoustic environment's complexity, making it more difficult for animals to …

The focus of this study was the release from informational masking that could be obtained in
a speech task by viewing a video of the target talker. A closed-set speech recognition …

Even in simpler times, some people (eg, Tanner) found it useful to ask “What is masking?”
Independent of the extent to which this question was adequately answered even in those …

When competing sources come from different directions, a desired target is easier to hear
than when the sources are co-located. How much of this improvement is the result of spatial …