Masking effects of speech and music: does the masker's hierarchical structure matter?

Abstract Speech and music are time-varying signals organized by parallel hierarchical rules. Through a series of four experiments, this study compared the masking effects of single-talker speech and instrumental music on speech perception while manipulating the complexity of hierarchical and tempora...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Audiology Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 296 - 309
Autores principales: Shi L, Law Y
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2010
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          Music
          Perceptual Masking
          Speech
          Adult
          Analysis of Variance
          Audiology
          Female
          Human
          Male
          Middle Age
          Paired T-Tests
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Repeated Measures
          Speech Perception
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
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      ab: Abstract Speech and music are time-varying signals organized by parallel hierarchical rules. Through a series of four experiments, this study compared the masking effects of single-talker speech and instrumental music on speech perception while manipulating the complexity of hierarchical and temporal structures of the maskers. Listeners' word recognition was found to be similar between hierarchically intact and disrupted speech or classical music maskers (Experiment 1). When sentences served as the signal, significantly greater masking effects were observed with disrupted than intact speech or classical music maskers (Experiment 2), although not with jazz or serial music maskers, which differed from the classical music masker in their hierarchical structures (Experiment 3). Removing the classical music masker's temporal dynamics or partially restoring it affected listeners' sentence recognition; yet, differences in performance between intact and disrupted maskers remained robust (Experiment 4). Hence, the effect of structural expectancy was largely present across maskers when comparing them before and after their hierarchical structure was purposefully disrupted. This effect seemed to lend support to the auditory stream segregation theory.
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