Additivity of masking in normally hearing and hearing-impaired subjects

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 98; no. 4; p. 1921
• Main Authors: Oxenham, A J, Moore, B C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.1995
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Auditory Threshold; Cochlea - physiopathology; Hearing; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - physiopathology; Humans; Perceptual Masking

The effects of combining two equally effective maskers were studied in normally hearing and elderly hearing-impaired subjects. The additivity of nonsimultaneous masking was investigated by measuring thresholds for a brief 4-kHz signal in the presence of a broadband-noise forward masker, a backward m...