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Published on: August 9, 2024
The relative size of auditory scenes of multiple talkers
William A Yost1, M Torben Pastore1, Kathryn R Pulling1
1Spatial Hearing Laboratory, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USAWilliam.Yost@asu.edu, Torben.Pastore@asu.edu, Kathryn.Pulling@asu.edu.
Abstract:
Normal hearing listeners discriminated a change in the number of talkers speaking consonant-vowel pairs between two auditory scenes. The number of talkers (n = 2, 4, 6, or 8) in one scene was incremented by Δn talkers (Δn = 1-8 talkers, depending on n) in the other scene. The perceptual size of the auditory scene seems to be small, as discrimination performance reached an approximate 0.75 proportion correct asymptote for n > 4. The independent variable of overall level differences affected performance, but both spatial configuration and talker similarity had very little effect.
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