The human brain has the task of binding successive sounds produced by the same acoustic
source into a coherent perceptual stream, and binding must be selective when several …

Speech perception is heavily influenced by surrounding sounds. When spectral properties
differ between earlier (context) and later (target) sounds, this can produce spectral contrast …

A target sound can become more audible and may “pop out” from a simultaneously
presented masker if the masker is presented first by itself, as a precursor. This phenomenon …

The auditory system is remarkably sensitive to changes in the acoustic environment. This is
exemplified by two classic effects of preceding spectral context on perception. In auditory …

Perception of a sound is influenced by spectral properties of surrounding sounds. When
frequencies are absent in a preceding acoustic context before being introduced in a …

Detection of a target tone in a simultaneous multi-tone masker can be improved by
preceding the stimulus with the masker alone. The mechanisms underlying this auditory …

Auditory enhancement in younger and older listeners with normal and impaired hearinga) |
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Auditory enhancement refers to the observation that the salience of one spectral region (the
“signal”) of a broadband sound can be enhanced and can “pop out” from the remainder of …

Normal-hearing listeners' speech perception is widely influenced by spectral contrast effects
(SCEs), where perception of a given sound is biased away from stable spectral properties of …

Auditory enhancement refers to the perceptual phenomenon that a target sound is heard out
more readily from a background sound if the background is presented alone first. Here we …