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ArticleHearing research2019

The effect of envelope modulations on binaural processing.

Matthew J Goupell, Stephen Fong, Olga Stakhovskaya

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Matthew J GoupellDepartment of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. Electronic address: goupell@umd.edu.
Stephen FongDepartment of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Olga StakhovskayaDepartment of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.

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Binaural unmasking of tones and speech in bilateral cochlear implanteesR01DC014948 · NIDCD · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI GOUPELL, MATTHEW J. · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC014948
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Abstract

An experiment was performed with 10 young normal-hearing listeners that attempted to determine if envelope modulations affected binaural processing in bandlimited pulse trains. Listeners detected an interaurally out-of-phase carrier pulse train in the presence of different amplitude modulations. The peaks of the pulses were constant (called "flat" or F), followed envelope modulations from an interaurally correlated 50-Hz bandwidth noise (called CM), or followed modulations from an interaurally uncorrelated noise (called UM). The pulse rate was varied from 50 to 500 pulses per second (pps) and the center frequency (CF) was 4 or 8 kHz. It was hypothesized that CM would cause no change or an increase in performance compared to F; UM would cause a decrease because of the blurring of the binaural detection cue. There was a small but significant decrease from F to CM (inconsistent with the hypothesis) and a further decrease from CM to UM (consistent with the hypothesis). Critically, there was a significant envelope by rate interaction caused by a decrease from F to CM for the 200-300 pps rates. The data can be explained by a subject-based factor, where some listeners experienced interaural envelope decorrelation when the sound was encoded by the auditory system that reduced performance when the modulations were present. Since the decrease in performance between F and CM conditions was small, it seems that most young normal-hearing listeners have very similar encoding of modulated stimuli across the ears. This type of task, when further optimized, may be able to assess if hearing-impaired populations experience interaural decorrelation from encoding modulated stimuli and therefore could help better understand the limited spatial hearing in populations like cochlear-implant users.

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Acoustic StimulationAdultAuditory PerceptionCochlear ImplantsFunctional LateralityHealthy VolunteersHumansPsychoacousticsSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSound LocalizationSpeech IntelligibilitySpeech PerceptionYoung AdultBinaural adaptationBinaural hearingInteraural time differencesModulations

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PMCPMC6571169

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