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Evidence for an across-frequency, between-channel process in asymptotic monaural temporal gap detection

 

作者: C. Formby,   M. J. Gerber,   L. P. Sherlock,   L. S. Magder,  

 

期刊: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  (AIP Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 103, issue 6  

页码: 3554-3560

 

ISSN:0001-4966

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1121/1.423084

 

出版商: Acoustical Society of America

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Monaurally measured temporal gap detection (TGD) thresholds characteristically increase as the frequency difference is increased over a range of about half an octave to an octave between two sinusoids that mark the onset and offset of the silent gap. For greater sinusoidal frequency separations, the TGD thresholds often become asymptotic. This pattern probably reflects two different processes. The first process likely reflectswithin-channelprocessing within a single auditory filter or channel. The second process is less certain, but may reflectbetween-channelprocessing of the silent gap stimulus across two or more independent frequency channels. To evaluate the hypothesis that asymptotic monaural gap detection can be explained by a simplebetween-channelprocess, TGD thresholds were measured as a function of frequency separation between a pregap sinusoid presented to the left ear (channel 1) and a postgap sinusoid, of higher frequency, presented to the right ear (channel 2). The rationale for dichotic presentation of the sinusoidal markers and gap signal followed from the fact that the gap detection task must be performed between two independent channels by combining the outputs from each channel (ear) and recovering the gap information centrally. The resulting TGD thresholds for pregap sinusoids from 250 to 4000 Hz were relatively invariant and increased only slightly with increasing marker frequency separation. The average TGD thresholds for four listeners were in the range of 30 to 40 ms, which corresponded closely with their asymptotic TGD thresholds for the same set of stimulus conditions measured monaurally. This correspondence of the two data sets supports an across-frequency,between-channelprocess for asymptotic monaural gap detection at marker frequency separations greater than about half an octave.

 

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