Conroy Christopher, Byrne Andrew J, Kidd Gerald
Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Hearing Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2025 May 1;157(5):3322-3328. doi: 10.1121/10.0036534.
Previous findings suggest that forward masking in the amplitude-modulation (AM) domain includes both sensory and perceptual components. The sensory component reflects masking associated with AM-rate-selective neural channels, whereas the perceptual component reflects masking associated with perceived target-masker similarity. In this article, it is shown that AM forward masking can be substantially reduced or even eliminated by reducing perceived target-masker similarity. It is suggested, therefore, that, under certain conditions, AM forward masking includes, at most, a weak sensory component along with a stronger perceptual component related to perceived target-masker similarity. This complicates interpretations of AM forward masking that rely on AM-rate-selective neural channels.
先前的研究结果表明,幅度调制(AM)域中的前向掩蔽包括感觉和知觉成分。感觉成分反映了与AM速率选择性神经通道相关的掩蔽,而知觉成分反映了与感知到的目标-掩蔽器相似性相关的掩蔽。在本文中,研究表明,通过降低感知到的目标-掩蔽器相似性,可以大幅减少甚至消除AM前向掩蔽。因此,有人认为,在某些条件下,AM前向掩蔽最多包括一个较弱的感觉成分以及一个与感知到的目标-掩蔽器相似性相关的较强的知觉成分。这使得依赖AM速率选择性神经通道对AM前向掩蔽的解释变得复杂。