Behavioral estimates of basilar-membrane compression: Additivity of forward masking in noise-masked normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2835-2844

  Gregan, Melanie J ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVITY; AFM; BACKGROUND NOISE; BASILAR MEMBRANES; COCHLEAR HEARING LOSS; FORWARD-MASKING; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; NORMATIVE DATA; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL LEVEL; SOUND LEVEL; SUPRATHRESHOLD;

ESTIMATION;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESSURE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81355153958     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3643817     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. ANSI (2004). Specifications for audiometers (American National Standards Institute, New York).
2. Bacon, S. P., Opie, J. M., and Montoya, D. Y. (1998). The effects of hearing loss and noise masking on the masking release for speech in temporally complex backgrounds, J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 41, 549-563. (Pubitemid 28299849)
3. Church, G. T., and Cudahy, E. A. (1984). The time course of the acoustic reflex, Ear Hear. 5, 235-242. 10.1097/00003446-198407000-00008 (Pubitemid 14034479)
4. Cokely, C. G., and Humes, L. E. (1993). Two experiments on the temporal boundaries for the nonlinear additivity of masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 2553-2559. 10.1121/1.407367 (Pubitemid 23331174)
5. Dubno, J. R., and Schaefer, A. B. (1992). Comparison of frequency selectivity and consonant recognition among hearing-impaired and masked normal-hearing listeners, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2110-2121. 10.1121/1.403697
6. Glasberg, B. R., and Moore, B. C. J. (1990). Derivation of auditory filter shapes from notched-noise data, Hear. Res. 47, 103-138. 10.1016/0378-5955(90)90170-T (Pubitemid 20244652)
7. Gregan, M. J., Nelson, P. B., and Oxenham, A. J. (2010). Effects of background noise level on behavioral estimates of basilar-membrane compression, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 3018-3025. 10.1121/1.3365311
8. Guinan, J. J., Jr. (2006). Olivocochlear efferents: Anatomy, physiology, function, and the measurement of efferent effects in humans, Ear Hear. 27, 589-607. 10.1097/01.aud.0000240507.83072.e7 (Pubitemid 44691223)
9. Hall, J. W., and Grose, J. H. (1997). The relation between gap detection, loudness, and loudness growth in noise-masked normal-hearing listeners, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 1044-1049. 10.1121/1.418110 (Pubitemid 27079887)
10. Hellman, R. P., and Meiselman, C. H. (1993). Rate of loudness growth for pure tones in normal and impaired hearing, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 966-975. 10.1121/1.405402 (Pubitemid 23059822)
11. Humes, L. E. (1978). The effects of middle ear muscle contraction on auditory and overload thresholds, Audiology 17, 360-367. 10.3109/ 00206097809101305 (Pubitemid 8367452)
12. Humes, L. E., and Jesteadt, W. (1989). Models of the additivity of masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 1285-1294. 10.1121/1.397459 (Pubitemid 19077255)
13. Jennings, S. G., Strickland, E. A., and Heinz, M. G. (2009). Precursor effects on behavioral estimates of frequency selectivity and gain in forward masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2172-2181. 10.1121/1.3081383
14. Jerger, J., Jerger, S., and Mauldin, L. (1972). Studies in impedance audiometry. I. Normal and sensorineural ears, Arch. Otolaryngol. 96, 513-523.
15. Krull, V., and Strickland, E. A. (2008). The effect of a precursor on growth of forward masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 4352-4357. 10.1121/1.2912440 (Pubitemid 351810170)
16. Levitt, H. (1971). Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49, 467-477. 10.1121/1.1912375
17. Lopez-Poveda, E. A., Plack, C. J., and Meddis, R. (2003). Cochlear nonlinearity between 500 and 8000 Hz in listeners with normal hearing, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 951-960. 10.1121/1.1534838 (Pubitemid 36240722)
18. Lopez-Poveda, E. A., Plack, C. J., Meddis, R., and Blanco, J. L. (2005). Cochlear compression in listeners with moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Hear. Res. 205, 172-183. 10.1016/j.heares.2005.03.015 (Pubitemid 40813281)
19. Moore, B. C. J., Huss, M., Vickers, D. A., Glasberg, B. R., and Alcantara, J. I. (2000). A test for the diagnosis of dead regions in the cochlea, Br. J. Audiol. 34, 205-224. 10.3109/03005364000000131
20. Nelson, D. A., Schroder, A. C., and Wojtczak, M. (2001). A new procedure for measuring peripheral compression in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 2045-2064. 10.1121/1.1404439 (Pubitemid 32959706)
21. Nelson, P. B., and Jin, S. H. (2004). Factors affecting speech understanding in gated interference: Cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 2286-2294. 10.1121/1.1703538 (Pubitemid 38542143)
22. Oxenham, A. J., and Bacon, S. P. (2003). Cochlear compression: Perceptual measures and implications for normal and impaired hearing, Ear Hear. 24, 352-366. 10.1097/01.AUD.0000090470.73934.78 (Pubitemid 37259584)
23. Oxenham, A. J., and Dau, T. (2004). Masker phase effects in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners: Evidence for peripheral compression at low signal frequencies, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 2248-2257. 10.1121/1.1786852 (Pubitemid 39391627)
24. Oxenham, A. J., and Moore, B. C. J. (1995). Additivity of masking in normally hearing and hearing-impaired subjects, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 1921-1934. 10.1121/1.413376
25. Oxenham, A. J., and Plack, C. J. (1997). A behavioral measure of basilar-membrane nonlinearity in listeners with normal and impaired hearing, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 3666-3675. 10.1121/1.418327 (Pubitemid 27255466)
26. Penner, M. J. (1980). The coding of intensity and the interaction of forward and backward masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 608-616. 10.1121/1.383938
27. Plack, C. J., and Arifianto, D. (2010). On- and off-frequency compression estimated using a new version of the additivity of forward masking technique, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 771-786. 10.1121/1.3455844
28. Plack, C. J., Drga, V., and Lopez-Poveda, E. A. (2004). Inferred basilar-membrane response functions for listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1684-1695. 10.1121/1.1675812 (Pubitemid 38451323)
29. Plack, C. J., and O'Hanlon, C. G. (2003). Forward masking additivity and auditory compression at low and high frequencies, J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 4, 405-415. 10.1007/s10162-002-3056-0 (Pubitemid 37187819)
30. Plack, C. J., Oxenham, A. J., and Drga, V. (2006). Masking by inaudible sounds and the linearity of temporal summation, J. Neurosci. 26, 8767-8773. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1134-06.2006 (Pubitemid 44319412)
31. Plack, C. J., Oxenham, A. J., Simonson, A. M., O'Hanlon, C. G., Drga, V., and Arifianto, D. (2008). Estimates of compression at low and high frequencies using masking additivity in normal and impaired ears, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 4321-4330. 10.1121/1.2908297 (Pubitemid 351810167)
32. Recio, A., Narayan, S. S., and Ruggero, M. A. (1998). Basilar-membrane responses to clicks at the base of the chinchilla cochlea, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 1972-1989. 10.1121/1.421377 (Pubitemid 28209023)
33. Recio-Spinoso, A., and Lopez-Poveda, E. A. (2010). Basilar membrane responses to simultaneous presentations of white noise and a single tone, in The Neurophysiological Bases of Auditory Perception, edited by, E. A. Lopez-Poveda, A. R. Palmer, and, R. Meddis, (Springer, New York), pp. 15-23.
34. Reed, C. M., Braida, L. D., and Zurek, P. M. (2009). Review article: Review of the literature on temporal resolution in listeners with cochlear hearing impairment: A critical assessment of the role of suprathreshold deficits, Trends Amplif. 13, 4-43. 10.1177/1084713808325412
35. Rhode, W. S. (1971). Observations of the vibration of the basilar membrane in squirrel monkeys using the Mssbauer technique, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49, 1218-1231. 10.1121/1.1912485
36. Rhode, W. S., and Cooper, N. P. (1996). Nonlinear mechanics in the apical turn of the chinchilla cochlea in vivo, Auditory Neurosci. 3, 101-121. (Pubitemid 26397832)
37. Robles, L., and Ruggero, M. A. (2001). Mechanics of the mammalian cochlea, Physiol. Rev. 81, 1305-1352. (Pubitemid 32606671)
38. Ruggero, M. A. (1992). Responses to sound of the basilar membrane of the mammalian cochlea, Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 2, 449-456. 10.1016/0959-4388(92) 90179-O
39. Ruggero, M. A., Rich, N. C., Recio, A., Narayan, S. S., and Robles, L. (1997). Basilar-membrane responses to tones at the base of the chinchilla cochlea, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 2151-2163. 10.1121/1.418265 (Pubitemid 27163980)
40. Sellick, P. M., Patuzzi, R., and Johnstone, B. M. (1982). Measurement of basilar membrane motion in the guinea pig using the Mssbauer technique, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, 131-141. 10.1121/1.387996
41. Shailer, M. J., and Moore, B. C. J. (1987). Gap detection and the auditory filter: Phase effects using sinusoidal stimuli, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 1110-1117. 10.1121/1.394631
42. Sommers, M. S., and Humes, L. E. (1993). Auditory filter shapes in normal-hearing, noise-masked normal, and elderly listeners, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2903-2914. 10.1121/1.405810 (Pubitemid 23143517)
43. Stainsby, T. H., and Moore, B. C. (2006). Temporal masking curves for hearing-impaired listeners, Hear. Res. 218, 98-111. 10.1016/j.heares.2006.05.007 (Pubitemid 44107669)
44. Wilson, R. H. (1981). The effects of aging on the magnitude of the acoustic reflex, J. Speech Hear. Res. 24, 406-414. (Pubitemid 11002164)
45. Wilson, R. H., and Carhart, R. (1971). Forward and backward masking: Interactions and additivity, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49, 1254-1263. 10.1121/1.1912488
46. Wojtczak, M., and Oxenham, A. J. (2009). Pitfalls in behavioral estimates of basilar-membrane compression in humans, J Acoust Soc Am 125, 270-281. 10.1121/1.3023063
47. Zinn, C., Maier, H., Zenner, H., and Gummer, A. W. (2000). Evidence for active, nonlinear, negative feedback in the vibration response of the apical region of the in-vivo guinea-pig cochlea, Hear. Res. 142, 159-183. 10.1016/S0378-5955(00)00012-5 (Pubitemid 30169136)
48. Zurek, P. M., and Delhorne, L. A. (1987). Consonant reception in noise by listeners with mild and moderate sensorineural hearing impairment, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 82, 1548-1559. 10.1121/1.395145