| The effect of spectral overlap on sensitivity to interaural time differences. | |
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PMID: 18530429 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Cochlear implant users who have some residual low-frequency hearing in both their implanted and unimplanted ears may have access to interaural time differences (ITDs), which could provide a cue for sound source segregation. Speech intelligibility has been shown in simulation to improve under these conditions. However, implant patients who stand to benefit from ITDs may have a significant asymmetry in the configuration of loss in the low-frequency region. It is unknown how a difference in corner frequency of loss across ears will affect ITD sensitivity. As a first step toward characterizing this relationship, the present study measured ITD just-noticeable differences (JNDs) of bands of noise that varied in the amount of spectral overlap across ears in five normal-hearing listeners. In one ear, the center frequency was 250 Hz, and the bandwidth was either 13 or 23 octaves. In the other ear, the center frequency was 250, 281, 315, 354, 397, or 794 Hz, and the bandwidth was 13 or 23 octaves. Results showed that although ITD JNDs increased as spectral overlap decreased, ITDs were only detectable so long as some spectral overlap was present. |
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Authors:
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Christopher A Brown; William A Yost |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 123 ISSN: 1520-8524 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 2008 May |
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Created Date: 2008-06-05 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: 3294 Citation Subset: IM |
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Arizona State University, Dept. of Speech & Hearing Science, P.O. Box 870102, Tempe, AZ 85287-0102, USA, c-b@asu.edu. |
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