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The Continuity Illusion in Virtual Auditory Space

Authors: Kelly, Michael C.; Tew, Anthony I.

AES Convention 112 · Paper 5548 · April 2002

Abstract

The cocktail party effect describes the human ability to direct attention to a single sound source amongst a mixture of competing sources. Under certain conditions signal fragments from these sources can be removed without creating a perceptible effect (often referred to as the continuity illusion). In this study we evaluate the impact of removing fine spectral detail in the regions of spectro-temporal overlap between a pure tone and a white noise source using Fourier spectral gating. We go on to discuss the use of spectral gating in the treatment of natural signals in relation to the discontinuities that are introduced and their effect on the continuity illusion.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 112
AES Convention
112
Paper number
5548
Publication date
April 6, 2002
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, and Listening Tests
Affiliation
Music Technology Research Group, Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, N. Yorkshire, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper