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The 'meaning' in noise—Evidence for bottom-up information masking of within channel modulation coding of speech
- Source :
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139:2044-2044
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2016.
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Abstract
- Spectro-temporal variations are a consequence of dynamic structural variations of a sounding body. The human auditory system is highly optimized for the detection, segregation and analysis of one class of such variations—speech. Here, we will examine some consequences of this optimisation in the context of complex listening involving multiple concurrent talkers. In such conversational settings, listeners rapidly shift their attention from one to another talker so foreground and background are defined dynamically by listener intent. Up-regulation of the attended-to talker is generally thought to result from endogenous, top-down attention. Here, we review a recent report indicating that substantial informational masking between concurrent talkers may result from bottom-up interactions between sources within frequency modulation channels. This indicates that temporally dynamic aspects of within-frequency channel processing plays a very important role in speech masking by the sort of “noise” most commonly enc...
- Subjects :
- Masking (art)
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
Computer science
Speech recognition
010103 numerical & computational mathematics
02 engineering and technology
Top-down and bottom-up design
01 natural sciences
Informational masking
Depth sounding
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Active listening
Channel modulation
0101 mathematics
Frequency modulation
Coding (social sciences)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00014966
- Volume :
- 139
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0ea8f268708bebec86d10bba6ff93345