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Convention Paper

Temporal and Spectral Masking Effects of Harmonic Complex Tones

Authors: Alphei, H.; Püschel, D.; Kohlrausch, A.

AES Convention 82 · Paper 2458 · March 1987

Abstract

Thresholds of a 1200-Hz test tone, masked by a harmonic complex tone (fundamental frequency 40 Hz), are reported. The frequency components are added in sinephase with amplitudes decreasing as 1/f. The resulting waveforms have a high-peak temporal envelope structure. The spectral structure of the masker is altered by omitting either the low or the high frequency components. The measured thresholds have a pronounced maximum if the masker cut-off frequency coincides with the test signal frequency. By varying the masker level it is possible, because of the ear's nonlinearities, to separate effects of temporal and spectral resolution.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 82
AES Convention
82
Paper number
2458
Publication date
March 6, 1987
Session subject
Psychoacoustics
Affiliation
Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universitait Gottingen, Gottingen, West Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper