summary to masked threshold as a function of duration

["G. Robert Arrabito" <Robert.Arrabito@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear listers,

Thanks to everyone who replied to my request for references
concerning masked threshold as a function of duration. This is very
much appreciated. I include below a summary of the replies that I received
to date.

Robbie
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:27:53 +1000
From: Harvey Holmes <H.Holmes@unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: masked threshold as a function of signal duration


There was a lot of work done on this topic in the 60s to 80s (roughly)
by E. Zwicker and E. Terhardt and their co-workers at Munich.

Some references to this work are given in the Zwicker and Fastl book
"Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models" (Springer) in the sections on temporal
masking, and I am sure others can be found by looking up Terhardt's web
site http://www.mmk.ei.tum.de/persons/ter.html or by using Google.



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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:32:51 +0200
From: "Bernhard U. Seeber" <seeber@ei.tum.de>
Subject: Re: masked threshold as a function of signal duration


there is quite some work on this with a good description of masking models,
with data and literature links in the Zwicker-Fastl book,

book{Zwi_Fas99,
   author    = "E. Zwicker and H. Fastl",
   title     = "Psychoacoustics, Facts and Models",
   publisher = "Springer",
   edition   = "2.",
   year      = 1999}


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From: "Judi Lapsley Miller" <judi@psychophysics.org>
Subject: RE: masked threshold as a function of signal duration
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:24:00 -0400
Organization: Psychophysics Ink

you might be interested in my thesis research looking at the
detectability of narrow-band noise as a function of signal bandwidth and
duration.

http://www.psychophysics.org/judi-papers.htm


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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:49:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Simpson <bsimpson@sdl.psych.wright.edu>
Subject: Re: masked threshold as a function of signal duration

Here are just a few references:

Kohlrausch, A. (1986).  The influence of signal duration, signal frequency
and masker duration on binaural masking level differences. Hearing
Research, 23, 267-273.

McFadden, D. (1966). Masking-level differences with continuous and with
burst masking noise.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 40,
1414-1419.

Robinson, D. E., and Trahiotis, C. (1972). Effects of signal duration and
masker duration on detectability under diotic and dichotic listening
conditions.  Perception and Psychophysics, 12, 333-334.

Trahiotis, C., Dolan, T. R., and Miller, T. H. (1972). Effect of
'backward' masker fringe on the detectability of pulsed diotic and
dichotic tonal signals.  Perception and Psychophysics, 12, 335-338.

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:26:05 -0700
From: "Sid P. Bacon" <spb@asu.edu>
Subject: masked temporal integration


We recently published a study on masked temporal integration.  The
reference is:

Bacon, S.P., Hicks, M.L., and Johnson, K.L. (2000).
"Temporal integration in the presence of off-frequency maskers,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 922-932.

There are numerous citations in the paper that might be of assistance.
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