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M Florentine1, S Buus

  • 1Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (133FR), Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|April 1, 1995
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Area of Science:

  • Auditory perception
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Signal detection theory

Background:

  • Level discrimination, or intensity discrimination, is crucial for understanding auditory processing.
  • Notched-noise maskers are commonly used to investigate auditory masking and discrimination abilities.
  • Previous research suggests profile analysis may be important for auditory discrimination tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of masker bandwidth and rove range on level discrimination of three-tone complexes.
  • To determine if profile analysis is necessary for effective level discrimination under specific masking conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using three-tone complexes presented with a notched-noise masker.
  • Masker bandwidth and level rove range were systematically varied.

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  • Listeners' level-discrimination thresholds (delta L's) were measured at different masker conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • Level-discrimination thresholds increased with increasing masker rove range.
    • Thresholds did not decrease with increasing masker bandwidth, unlike in profile-discrimination tasks.
    • Discrimination performance exceeded that of a hypothetical profile observer at rove ranges of 10 dB or greater.

    Conclusions:

    • Profile analysis is not essential for achieving good level discrimination in the presence of notched-noise maskers.
    • Masker characteristics, specifically rove range, significantly impact level discrimination.
    • These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of auditory cue utilization in complex listening environments.