Effects of informational maskers within and across trials.
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The across-trial effect of maskers in conditions of informational masking was evaluated from performance on occasional trials in which the signal was presented alone. For 6 of 12 listeners participating in the study, a significant number of errors were obtained on signal-alone trials; in some cases equivalent to that signal+ masker trials. On immediately preceding trial blocks for which there were no intervening maskers, performance for these signals was perfect. The results indicate that informational maskers can have a significant effect on signal threshold, both within and across trials.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
دوره 118 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005