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Accounting quantitatively for sensitivity to envelope-based interaural temporal disparities at high frequencies.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20815458     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Bernstein and Trahiotis [(2009). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 3234-3242] reported threshold interaural temporal disparities (ITDs) conveyed by the envelopes of 4-kHz-centered "raised-sine" stimuli. A raised-sine stimulus consists of a carrier modulated by a sinusoid raised to an exponent. Such stimuli permitted Bernstein and Trahiotis to vary, independently, stimulus modulation frequency, modulation depth, and "relative peakedness/deadtime." An interaural correlation-based model that included stages mimicking peripheral auditory processing captured most of the data save for an overestimation of threshold ITDs obtained when the depth of modulation was 25% and the raised-sine exponent was 8.0. The purpose of the present study was: (1) to present a quantitative evaluation of how well other measures, including normalized envelope fourth moment, envelope peakwidth, and envelope "deadtime" might also account for the data reported by Bernstein and Trahiotis and (2) to present new threshold ITDs measured while varying, factorially, depth of modulation, raised-sine exponent, and modulation frequency. Quantitative analyses of both the prior and the new data showed that the normalized interaural correlation, computed subsequent to peripheral auditory processing, provided the most accurate predictions. Importantly, the overestimation of threshold ITDs did not occur when it was assumed that listeners can employ information within "off-frequency" auditory filters.
Authors:
Leslie R Bernstein; Constantine Trahiotis
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America     Volume:  128     ISSN:  1520-8524     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Acoust. Soc. Am.     Publication Date:  2010 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-09-06     Completed Date:  2011-01-12     Revised Date:  2011-09-13    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7503051     Medline TA:  J Acoust Soc Am     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1224-34     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Acoustic Stimulation
Adult
Auditory Pathways / physiology*
Auditory Threshold
Cues
Humans
Models, Neurological
Pitch Perception*
Time Factors
Time Perception*
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
DC-04147/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R01 DC004147-11/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS
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