Contralateral influences of wideband inhibition on the effect of onset asynchrony as a cue for auditory grouping

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3655-3665

  Roberts, Brian ^a   Holmes, Stephen D ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

CAPTOR EFFECTS; EARS; ONSET ASYNCHRONY; VOWEL QUALITY;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SOUND;

EID: 34249913706     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2721874     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Bartlett, E. L., and Wang, X. (2005). " Lost-lasting modulation by stimulus context in primate auditory cortex., " J. Neurophysiol. 94, 83-104.
2. Bleeck, S., Ingham, N., Verhey, J., and Winter, I. M. (2005). " Wideband suppression in cochlear nucleus: A role in grouping by common onset. ?" in ARO Abstracts, Vol. 28, No. 671, p. 236.
3. Brady, S. A., and Darwin, C. J. (1978). " Range effect in the perception of voicing., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63, 1556-1558.
4. Bregman, A. S. (1990). Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
5. Bregman, A. S., and Doehring, P. (1984). " Fusion of simultaneous tonal glides: The role of parallelness and simple frequency relations., " Percept. Psychophys. 36, 251-256.
6. Bregman, A. S., and Pinker, S. (1978). " Auditory streaming and the building of timbre., " Can. J. Psychol. 32, 19-31.
7. Brunstrom, J. M., and Roberts, B. (2001). " Effects of asynchrony and ear of presentation on the pitch of mistuned partials in harmonic and frequency-shifted complex tones., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 391-401.
8. Ciocca, V., and Darwin, C. J. (1993). " Effects of onset asynchrony on pitch perception: Adaptation or grouping. ?" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2870-2878.
9. Dannenbring, G. L., and Bregman, A. S. (1978). " Streaming vs. fusion of sinusoidal components of complex tones., " Percept. Psychophys. 24, 369-376.
10. Darwin, C. J. (1984a). " Auditory processing and speech perception., " in Attention and Performance X: Control of Language Processes, edited by, H. Bouma, and, D. G. Bouwhuis, (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ), pp. 197-210.
11. Darwin, C. J. (1984b). " Perceiving vowels in the presence of another sound: Constraints on formant perception., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 76, 1636-1647.
12. Darwin, C. J. (1995). " Perceiving vowels in the presence of another sound: A quantitative test of the 'old-plus-new' heuristic., " in Levels in Speech Communication: Relations and Interactions, edited by, C. Sorin,,, J. Mariani,,, H. Meloni,, and, J. Schoentgen, (Elsevier, Amsterdam), pp. 1-12.
13. Darwin, C. J. (1997). " Auditory grouping., " Trends Cogn. Sci. 1, 327-333.
14. Darwin, C. J., Buffa, A., Williams, D., and Ciocca, V. (1992). " Pitch of dichotic complex tones with a mistuned frequency component., " in Auditory Physiology and Perception, edited by, Y. Cazals,,, L. Demany,, and, K. Horner, (Pergamon, Oxford), pp. 223-229.
15. Darwin, C. J., and Ciocca, V. (1992). " Grouping in pitch perception: Effects of onset asynchrony and ear of presentation of a mistuned component., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 3381-3390.
16. Darwin, C. J., Hukin, R. W., and Al-Khatib, B. Y. (1995). " Grouping in pitch perception: Evidence for sequential constraints., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 880-885.
17. Darwin, C. J., and Sutherland, N. S. (1984). " Grouping frequency components of vowels: When is a harmonic not a harmonic. ?" Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 36A, 193-208.
18. Demany, L., and Semal, C. (1988). " Dichotic fusion of two tones one octave apart: Evidence for internal octave templates., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 83, 687-695.
19. Demany, L., and Semal, C. (1992). " Detection of inharmonicity in dichotic pure-tone dyads., " Hear. Res. 61, 161-166.
20. Finney, D. J. (1971). Probit Analysis, 3rd ed. (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, UK).
21. Hartmann, W. M., McAdams, S., and Smith, B. K. (1990). " Hearing a mistuned harmonic in an otherwise periodic complex tone., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 1712-1724.
22. Henke, W. L. (1997). MITSYN: A Coherent Family of High-Level Languages for Time Signal Processing, software package (Belmont, MA); e-mail: mitsyn@earthlink.net; http://home.earthlink.net/~mitsyn
23. Holmes, S. D., and Roberts, B. (2006). " Inhibitory influences on asynchrony as a cue for auditory segregation., " J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 32, 1231-1242.
24. Houtgast, T. (1974). " Lateral suppression in hearing., " Doctoral thesis, Free University, Amsterdam.
25. Hukin, R. W., and Darwin, C. J. (1995). " Comparison of the effect of onset asynchrony on auditory grouping in pitch matching and vowel identification., " Percept. Psychophys. 57, 191-196.
26. Joris, P. X., and Smith, P. H. (1998). " Temporal and binaural properties in dorsal cochlear nucleus and its output tract., " J. Neurosci. 18, 10157-10170.
27. Kiang, N. Y.-S., Watanabe, T., Thomas, E. C., and Clark, L. F. (1965). Discharge Patterns of Single Fibers in the Cat's Auditory Nerve (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
28. Klatt, D. H. (1980). " Software for a cascade/parallel formant synthesizer., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 971-995.
29. Lin, J.-Y., and Hartmann, W. M. (1998). " The pitch of a mistuned harmonic: Evidence for a template model., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 2608-2617.
30. Mann, V. A., and Liberman, A. M. (1983). " Some differences between phonetic and auditory modes of perception., " Cognition 14, 211-235.
31. Moore, B. C. J., Glasberg, B. R., and Peters, R. W. (1985). " Relative dominance of individual partials in determining the pitch of complex tones., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, 1853-1860.
32. Moore, B. C. J., Glasberg, B. R., and Peters, R. W. (1981). " Thresholds for hearing mistuned partials as separate tones in harmonic complexes., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 80, 479-483.
33. Needham, K., and Paolini, A. G. (2003). " Fast inhibition underlies the transmission of auditory information between cochlear nuclei., " J. Neurosci. 23, 6257-6361.
34. O'Loughlin, B. J., and Moore, B. C. J. (1981). " Off-frequency listening: Effects on psychoacoustic tuning curves obtained in simultaneous and forward masking., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, 1119-1125.
35. Palmer, A. R., Jiang, D., and Marshall, D. H. (1996). " Response of ventral cochlear nucleus onset and chopper units as a function of signal bandwidth., " J. Neurophysiol. 75, 780-794.
36. Plomp, R. (1964). " The ear as a frequency analyzer., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 36, 1628-1636.
37. Rand, T. C. (1974). " Dichotic release from masking for speech., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55, 678-680.
38. Rasch, R. A. (1978). " The perception of simultaneous notes such as in polyphonic music., " Acustica 40, 21-33.
39. Ritsma, R. J. (1967). " Frequencies dominant in the perception of the pitch of complex sounds., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 42, 191-198.
40. Roberts, B. (2005). " Spectral pattern, grouping, and the pitches of complex tones and their components., " Acta. Acust. Acust. 91, 945-957.
41. Roberts, B., and Brunstrom, J. M. (1998). " Perceptual segregation and pitch shifts of mistuned components in harmonic complexes and in regular inharmonic complexes., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 2326-2338.
42. Roberts, B., and Brunstrom, J. M. (2003). " Spectral pattern, harmonic relations, and the perceptual grouping of low-numbered components., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 2118-2134.
43. Roberts, B., and Holmes, S. D. (2006a). " Asynchrony and the grouping of vowel components: Captor tones revisited., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 2905-2918.
44. Roberts, B., and Holmes, S. D. (2006b). " Grouping and the pitch of a mistuned fundamental component: Effects of applying simultaneous multiple mistunings to the other harmonics., " Hear. Res. 222, 79-88.
45. Roberts, B., Holmes, S. D., Bleeck, S., and Winter, I. M. (in press). " Wideband inhibition modulates the effect of onset asynchrony as a grouping cue., " Proc. XIVth Int. Symp. Hear., Cloppenburg, Germany. [To appear in: Hearing-From Basic Research to Applications, edited by, B. Kollmeier,,, G. Klump,,, V. Hohmann,,, U. Langemann,,, M. Mauermann,,, S. Uppenkamp,, and, J. Verhey, (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007)].
46. Roberts, B., and Moore, B. C. J. (1991). " The influence of extraneous sounds on the perceptual estimation of first-formant frequency in vowels under conditions of asynchrony., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 2922-2932.
47. Shannon, R. V. (1976). " Two-tone unmasking and suppression in a forward-masking situation., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 1460-1470.
48. Shore, S. E., Sumner, C. J., Bledsoe, S. C., and Lu, J. (2003). " Effects of contralateral sound stimulation on unit activity of ventral cochlear nucleus neurons., " Exp. Brain Res. 153, 427-435.
49. Snedecor, G. W., and Cochran, W. G. (1967). Statistical Methods, 6th ed. (Iowa U.P., Ames, Iowa).
50. Turgeon, M., Bregman, A. S., and Roberts, B. (2005). " Rhythmic masking release: Effects of asynchrony, temporal overlap, harmonic relations, and source separation on cross-spectral grouping., " J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 31, 939-953.
51. Westerman, L. A., and Smith, R. A. (1984). " Rapid and short-term adaptation in auditory nerve responses., " Hear. Res. 15, 249-260.
52. Winter, I. M., and Palmer, A. R. (1995). " Level dependence of cochlear nucleus onset unit responses and facilitation by second tones or broadband noise., " J. Neurophysiol. 73, 141-159.
53. Yasin, I., and Plack, C. J. (2003). " The effects of a high-frequency suppressor on tuning curves and derived basilar-membrane response functions., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 322-332.
54. Young, E. D., and Brownell, W. E. (1976). " Responses to tones and noise of single cells in dorsal cochlear nucleus of unanesthetized cats., " J. Neurophysiol. 39, 282-300.