PURPOSE To investigate the effects of hearing loss on auditory stream segregation of broadband inharmonic sounds. METHOD Auditory stream segregation by listeners with normal and impaired hearing was measured for 6-component inharmonic sounds ("A" and "B") using objective and subjective methods. Components in the A stimuli ranged between 1000 and 4000 Hz, whereas B stimuli were generated at th...

Unlike automatic speech recognition systems, humans can understand speech when other competing sounds are present Although the theory of auditory scene analysis (ASA) may help to explain this ability, some perceptual experiments show fusion of the speech signal under circumstances in which ASA principles might be expected to cause segregation. We propose a model of multi-resolution ASA that use...

Temporal integration is a fundamental process that the brain carries out to construct coherent percepts from serial sensory events. This process critically depends on the formation of memory traces reconciling past with present events and is particularly important in the auditory domain where sensory information is received both serially and in parallel. It has been suggested that buffers for t...

We propose a novel model-concept of selective sound segregation based on Auditory Scene Analysis and then describe implementation of a prototype model for selectively segregating a target musical instrument sound from the mixed sound of various musical instruments. This model is extended from our previously proposed model of segregating two acoustic sources (Unoki and Akagi, Speech Communicatio...

We propose a novel model-concept of selective sound segregation based on Auditory Scene Analysis and then describe implementation of a prototype model for selectively segregating a target musical instrument sound from the mixed sound of various musical instruments. This model is extended from our previously proposed model of segregating two acoustic sources (Unoki and Akagi, Speech Communicatio...