Persistence of auditory streaming preserves release from masking

Authors

  • Kachina Allen Dept. of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW 2106, Australia
  • Simon Carlile Dept. of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW 2106, Australia
  • David Alais Dept. of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW 2106, Australia
  • Karen Froud Dept. of Biobehavioural Sciences, Teacher's College, NY 10027, United States

Keywords:

Acoustic wave propagation, Speech analysis, Speech intelligibility, Spatial unmasking, Spectral components, Target streams, Voice characteristics

Abstract

The association of spectral components with individual external sources that involved a short term grouping process and a streaming of the grouped elements overtime to make spatial unmasking was investigated. Unmasking was due to initial separation that allows the listener to more easily create and identify the target streams and thus detect voice characteristics of the target talker. The spatial cues disappear as the streams become co-located and can be used to continue to attend to the target or to filter out masker talkers. The results shows that the differences in unmasking between the separated and unseparated conditions indicate the proportion of spatial unmasking which relates to streaming due to local cues.

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Published

2005-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Allen K, Carlile S, Alais D, Froud K. Persistence of auditory streaming preserves release from masking. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2005 Sep. 1 [cited 2026 May 6];33(3):46-7. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/1738

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 3 (2005)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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