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The effect of temporal asymmetry on amplitude modulation detection using pure-tone carriers (L)
1Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7000, USA. shen.yi@uci.edu
Abstract:
The effect of temporal asymmetry on amplitude modulation detection was studied using sawtooth modulators with rising (ramped) or falling (damped) temporal envelopes within each period of modulation. For pure-tone carriers, damped modulation was more detectable than ramped modulation for a 5-kHz carrier (by a threshold difference of 3.2 dB on average) but not for a 1-kHz carrier. The threshold difference obtained at 5 kHz between the ramped and damped modulators was consistent across modulation rates (8-128 Hz). This carrier frequency dependence suggests that the effect of temporally asymmetry on modulation detection originates from envelope-based, within-channel mechanisms.
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