Can monaural temporal masking explain the ongoing precedence effect?

Physiological measures of the precedence effect and spatial release from masking in the cat inferior colliculus

Temporal integration in vision: masking can aid detection.

Temporal form-part integration is the process whereby two discrete sets of stimuli, presented at different times, are perceived by the visual system as a single integrated percept. Dixon and Di Lollo (Cognitive Psychology 26(1):33-63, 1994) proposed a temporal correlation model that was able to quantitatively account for a number of findings related to both form-part integration tasks and parti...

Temporal masking-level differences: the effect of mask duration.

Psychometric functions were obtained for the interaural conditions NoSo and NoS•r in both forward and backward masking using masks of different durations. In addition, data were collected for the Sm, S•r, and So conditions without an external mask. The slope parameter k and the signal level required for 76% correct detection were compu,tcd with a least-squares technique. The results were that b...

The precedence effect.

In a reverberant environment, sounds reach the ears through several paths. Although the direct sound is followed by multiple reflections, which would be audible in isolation, the first-arriving wavefront dominates many aspects of perception. The "precedence effect" refers to a group of phenomena that are thought to be involved in resolving competition for perception and localization between a d...

Can early infection explain the sibling effect in adult atopy?

Atopy is strongly and inversely related to family size, a pattern which is plausibly assumed to reflect a protective effect of early infection. The current study tested this hypothesis by case-referent analysis of an adult cohort in the UK. The study established that atopy, defined by prick tests to common aeroallergens, was less common among those from larger families after adjustment for pote...