title: Evidence for two temporal processes in forward masking.
abstract: Evidence is provided from forward masking conditions of an auditory detection study demonstrating that an early temporal integration system summates auditory information for 3 msec or less. The output of this early system is the imput to another system that applies a compressive nonlinear transformation and summates auditory information for a considerably longer period of time.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013997:Time Factors