| Comodulation masking release with signal-masker interactions represented in the envelope. | |
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PMID: 20330301 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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In normal hearing, the threshold of a tone masked by a modulated narrow-band on-frequency masker (OFB) can be reduced if correlated modulation is present on spectrally distant flanking bands (FBs), an effect known as comodulation masking release (CMR). Since electric hearing with current cochlear implants is based on envelope information, comodulation of envelopes on multiple electrodes might also be beneficial for detection in electric hearing. CMR was investigated with normal-hearing participants listening to unprocessed or vocoded stimuli. In Experiment 1, tone thresholds were determined when masked by a sinusoidally amplitude-modulated band of noise (SAM and OFB) and by zero to four FBs of noise whose envelopes were either co- or anti-modulated with the OFB envelope. In Experiment 2, envelopes of those signals were extracted in a vocoder and used to modulate noise or sinusoidal carriers, thereby replacing the original temporal fine structure (TFS). Significant CMR of 3-10 dB was found in unprocessed conditions and although reduced to 2-6 dB, CMR was still significant after vocoding. CMR did not differ significantly between the sine and the noise vocoder, suggesting that the applied SAM determined the magnitude of CMR. Since CMR withstands vocoding, comodulation is hoped to improve detection in electric hearing. |
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Authors:
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Robert H Pierzycki; Bernhard U Seeber |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 127 ISSN: 1520-8524 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 2010 Mar |
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Created Date: 2010-03-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503051 Medline TA: J Acoust Soc Am Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1808 Citation Subset: IM |
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MRC Inst. of Hearing Res., Univ. Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, rp@ihr.mrc.ac.uk. |
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