An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

This paper presents a quantitative model for describing data from modulation-detection and
modulation-masking experiments, which extends the model of the “effective” signal …

Three experimental paradigms were used to specify the auditory system's frequency
selectivity for amplitude modulation (AM). In the first experiment, masked-threshold patterns …

This paper is concerned with modulation and beat detection for sinusoidal carriers. In the
first experiment, temporal modulation transfer functions (TMTFs) were measured for carrier …

Objective: To develop a new version of the threshold-equalizing-noise (TEN) test for the
diagnosis of dead regions, with levels calibrated in dB HL rather than dB SPL, and with …

The neural basis of tinnitus is unknown. Recent neuroimaging studies point towards
involvement of several cortical and subcortical regions. Here we demonstrate that tinnitus …

Channel vocoders using either tone or band-limited noise carriers have been used in
experiments to simulate cochlear implant processing in normal-hearing listeners. Previous …

A model is presented which calculates the intrinsic envelope power of a bandpass noise
carrier within the passband of a hypothetical modulation filter tuned to a specific modulation …

Masking is of central interest in the cocktail party problem, because interfering voices may
be sufficiently intense or numerous to mask the voice to which the listener is attending …

Perception of voice characteristics allows normal hearing listeners to identify the gender of a
speaker, and to better segregate speakers from each other in cocktail party situations. This …