ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2021
Temporal fine structure influences voicing confusions for consonant identification in multi-talker babble.
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- Web-based psychoacoustics: Hearing screening, infrastructure, and validation.Behavior research methods · 2024Pooled it
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- Individual differences elucidate the perceptual benefits associated with robust temporal fine-structure processing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Impact of reduced spectral resolution on temporal-coherence-based source segregation.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Individual Differences Elucidate the Perceptual Benefits Associated with Robust Temporal Fine-Structure Processing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Impact of Reduced Spectral Resolution on Temporal-Coherence-Based Source Segregation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Relative Perceptual Salience of Linguistic and Emotional Prosody in Quiet and Noisy Contexts.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Relating Suprathreshold Auditory Processing Abilities to Speech Understanding in Competition.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- FORUM: Remote testing for psychological and physiological acoustics.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Speech Categorization Reveals the Role of Early-Stage Temporal-Coherence Processing in Auditory Scene Analysis.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
To understand the mechanisms of speech perception in everyday listening environments, it is important to elucidate the relative contributions of different acoustic cues in transmitting phonetic content. Previous studies suggest that the envelope of speech in different frequency bands conveys most speech content, while the temporal fine structure (TFS) can aid in segregating target speech from background noise. However, the role of TFS in conveying phonetic content beyond what envelopes convey for intact speech in complex acoustic scenes is poorly understood. The present study addressed this question using online psychophysical experiments to measure the identification of consonants in multi-talker babble for intelligibility-matched intact and 64-channel envelope-vocoded stimuli. Consonant confusion patterns revealed that listeners had a greater tendency in the vocoded (versus intact) condition to be biased toward reporting that they heard an unvoiced consonant, despite envelope and place cues being largely preserved. This result was replicated when babble instances were varied across independent experiments, suggesting that TFS conveys voicing information beyond what is conveyed by envelopes for intact speech in babble. Given that multi-talker babble is a masker that is ubiquitous in everyday environments, this finding has implications for the design of assistive listening devices such as cochlear implants.
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