Better-ear glimpsing efficiency with symmetrically-placed interfering talkers

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 132; no. 4; p. 2545
• Main Authors: Brungart, Douglas S, Iyer, Nandini
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2012
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adolescent; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Audiometry, Speech; Auditory Threshold; Cues; Ear - physiology; Female; Functional Laterality; Humans; Male; Noise - adverse effects; Perceptual Masking; Signal Detection, Psychological; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Sound Localization; Sound Spectrography; Speech Intelligibility; Speech Perception; Young Adult

In listening tasks where a target speech signal is spatially separated from a masking voice, listeners can often gain a substantial advantage in performance by attending to the ear with the better signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, this better-ear strategy becomes much more complicated when a tar...