TEMPORAL PROPERTIES OF AUDITORY MASKING

描述（研究者摘要）：应用程序描述了两个 研究领域，重点放在第一个领域，而不是 一下 第一个领域是以前研究的延伸， 旨在定义支配绩效的刺激特征 同时掩蔽。 主要问题是确定 解释信号放置时发生的差异的过程 在掩蔽（过冲）中的各个时间位置处。 这些机制 已经讨论了至少25年。 最近的工作， 由首席研究员发表，表明，几种机制， 可能参与其中。 这项工作的继续应该揭示相对 这些机制的贡献，也许更重要的是，探索 这些基本听觉过程之间的相互作用， 了解一般的动态处理。

DESCRIPTION (Investigator's Abstract): The application describes two areas of research, with a heavier emphasis on the first area than the second. The first area is an extension of previous studies that are directed at defining the stimulus characteristics that govern performance in simultaneous masking. The primary issue is the identification of processes that account for differences that occur when signals are placed at various temporal locations in a masker (overshoot). These mechanisms have been discussed for at least 25 years. Recent work, much of it published by the principal investigator, indicates that several mechanisms may be involved. Continuation of this work should reveal the relative contributions of these mechanisms, and perhaps more importantly, explore interactions among these basic auditory processes that may be important in understanding dynamic processing in general.