title: Spectral overlap and interaural time difference sensitivity: possible role of binaural interference.
abstract: A follow-up experiment to those conducted by Brown and Yost [(2011). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 358-364; (2013). Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception (Springer, London, UK)] examined interaural time difference (ITD) discrimination for a low-frequency target noise band flanked by monotic noise bands that were either lower-frequency than the target band, higher-frequency, or both. The flanking bands were either spectrally contiguous with the target band or spectrally separated. Significant interference in ITD processing occurred in the presence of the high-frequency flanking band. Results are discussed by way of a comparison of the conditions in the present study to those in studies of binaural interference. The possible role of attention is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania cbrown1@pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Christopher A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281 william.yost@asu.edu.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Yost
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000162:Acoustics; D001299:Audiometry; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009038:Motion; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013016:Sound; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013997:Time Factors