Department of Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts, 358 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Sensimetrics Corporation, 14 Summer Street, Malden, Massachusetts 02148, USA
J Acoust Soc Am. 2018 Feb;143(2):EL133. doi: 10.1121/1.5024687.
The precedence effect for transient sounds has been proposed to be based primarily on monaural processes, manifested by asymmetric temporal masking. This study explored the potential for monaural explanations with longer ("ongoing") sounds exhibiting the precedence effect. Transient stimuli were single lead-lag noise burst pairs; ongoing stimuli were trains of 63 burst pairs. Unlike with transients, monaural masking data for ongoing sounds showed no advantage for the lead, and are inconsistent with asymmetric audibility as an explanation for ongoing precedence. This result, along with supplementary measurements of interaural time discrimination, suggests different explanations for transient and ongoing precedence.
暂态声音的优先效应据称主要基于单耳过程,表现为非对称的时间掩蔽。本研究探讨了具有更长(“持续”)声音的单耳解释的可能性,这些声音表现出优先效应。瞬态刺激是单个前导-滞后噪声突发对;持续刺激是 63 个突发对的序列。与瞬态声音不同,持续声音的单耳掩蔽数据对于前导没有优势,并且与非对称可听性作为持续优先的解释不一致。这一结果,以及对侧间时间辨别力的补充测量,表明了暂态和持续优先的不同解释。