Subject: Re: Perceptual block From: eldad tsabary <tazberrydocs@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:49:36 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--Apple-Mail=_4B738B5B-123A-4629-B389-18E0274EF590 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks Sounds good. I will certainly look into this Cheers Eldad On 2012-11-27, at 5:06 AM, Tom Goossens wrote: > Dear Eldad, >=20 > I saw your post on the auditory list. > Perhaps you are interested in my publication regarding auditory object = formation. It was published in JASA but also in my thesis which you can = find here: http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/200811211.pdf > In particular chaptar 4. >=20 > In short: I presented two tokens of guassian noise to listeners in = each trial. Their task was to decide whether these were the same or = different. Many trials were presented. Listeners were quite good at this = for certain conditions. In one such condition we augmented the noises = with extra noise that did not contribute to the listening task = (fringes). This appeared to have a detrimental effect on performance. = The fringes were also altered in several ways to investigate the effect = of fringe properties. >=20 > In the discussion we induce that the detrimental effect is due to the = the listener not being able to segregate the fringes into seperate = auditory objects. Once sufficient segregation cues are introduced, and = the listener is able to segregate target from fringe, the detrimental = effect is partly mitigated. >=20 > Hope this helps, >=20 > Kind regards, > Tom Goossens --Apple-Mail=_4B738B5B-123A-4629-B389-18E0274EF590 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks<div>Sounds good.</div><div>I will certainly look into this</div><div>Cheers</div><div>Eldad</div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-11-27, at 5:06 AM, Tom Goossens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#003333"><font face="georgia,serif">Dear Eldad,</font></font><div><font color="#003333"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">I saw your post on the auditory list.</font></div> <div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">Perhaps you are interested in my publication regarding auditory object formation. It was published in JASA but also in my thesis which you can find here: <a href="http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/200811211.pdf">http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/200811211.pdf</a></font></div> <div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">In particular chaptar 4.</font></div><div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">In short: I presented two tokens of guassian noise to listeners in each trial. Their task was to decide whether these were the same or different. Many trials were presented. Listeners were quite good at this for certain conditions. In one such condition we augmented the noises with extra noise that did not contribute to the listening task (fringes). This appeared to have a detrimental effect on performance. The fringes were also altered in several ways to investigate the effect of fringe properties.</font></div> <div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">In the discussion we induce that the detrimental effect is due to the the listener not being able to segregate the fringes into seperate auditory objects. Once sufficient segregation cues are introduced, and the listener is able to segregate target from fringe, the detrimental effect is partly mitigated.</font></div> <div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">Hope this helps,</font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">Kind regards,</font></div> <div><font color="#003333" face="georgia, serif">Tom Goossens</font></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html> --Apple-Mail=_4B738B5B-123A-4629-B389-18E0274EF590--