title: Toward an objective measure for a "stream segregation" task.
abstract: A procedure to estimate the relative contribution of "A" and "B" tones for a stream-segregation task is described. Listeners detected a delay in the penultimate A tone in an A-B-A-B sequence of tones. For small A-B frequency separations, for most listeners, classification models based on both the A and B tones were superior to models based on just the A tones. For large frequency separations, models based on just the A tones were superior, indicating the A and B tones were segregated. The results also revealed individual differences in the strategies adopted to complete the task.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, California 92697-5100, USA. v.m.richards@uci.edu
authors.forename: Virginia M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Eva Maria
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Carreira
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult