Darwin, Christopher J (2006) Contributions of binaural information to the separation of different sound sources. International Journal of Audiology, 45 (S1). S20-S24. ISSN 1499-2027

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Abstract

Binaural hearing aids potentially provide binaural cues that can improve the dectability and the spatial separation of multiple sound sources. This paper considers the use of binaural cues and the resultant spatial percepts on listeners ability to separate simultaneous sound sources. In continuous noise backgrounds or backgrounds with multiple talkers, the main problem is the detection of the individual acoustic components. On the other hand, if a single masking sound is very similar to the target, and both target and mask are spectro-temporally sparse, as is the case with speech, the main problem, at least for listeners with normal hearing, is to decide whether a particular spectro-temporal feature belongs to the target source and to track that source across time. Although the subjective location of a sound source can help in grouping features across time, its effect is most easily observed in the absence of other differences between the sound sources.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Christopher John Darwin
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 15:33
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2012 11:02
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13197

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