Search Results - "Lutfi, R A"

Simultaneous relative cue reliance in speech-on-speech masking by Lutfi, R. A., Zandona, M., Lee, J.

“…Modern hearing research has identified the ability of listeners to segregate simultaneous speech streams with a reliance on three major voice cues, fundamental…”
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Auditory detection of hollowness by Lutfi, R A

“…The airborne sounds produced by freely vibrating hollow and solid bars were synthesized according to the equations of bar motion from theoretical acoustics,…”
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Children's detection of pure-tone signals with random multitone maskers by Oh, E L, Wightman, F, Lutfi, R A

“…Preschoolers and adults were asked to detect a 1000-Hz signal, which was masked by a multitone complex. The frequencies and amplitudes of the components in the…”
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Nonmonotonicity of informational masking by Oh, E L, Lutfi, R A

“…Neff and Green [Percept. Psychophys. 41, 409-415 (1987)] report that the masking of single tones by random-frequency multitone maskers varies nonmonotonically…”
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Correlational analysis of acoustic cues for the discrimination of auditory motion by Lutfi, R A, Wang, W

“…The sound of a source moving in a straight path and passing directly in front of the listener on the azimuthal plane was synthesized over headphones to include…”
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Informational masking by everyday sounds by Oh, E L, Lutfi, R A

“…Tone-in-noise detection is severely degraded when only a few spectral components of the noise are presented at random on each trial [Neff and Green, Percept…”
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Level discrimination of single tones in a multitone complex by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners by Doherty, K A, Lutfi, R A

“…A conditional-on-a-single-stimulus (COSS) analysis procedure [B. G. Berg, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, 1743-1746 (1989)] was used to estimate how well…”
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Interpreting measures of frequency selectivity: is forward masking special? by LUTFI, R. A

“…In a previous article [Lutfi, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 76, 1045-1050 (1984)], the following relation was used to predict measures of frequency selectivity obtained…”
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A power-law transformation predicting masking by sounds with complex spectra by LUTFI, R. A

“…In a previous paper [R. Lutfi, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 73, 262-267 (1983)], the following rule was proposed for predicting masking by pairs of simultaneous…”
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A model of auditory pattern analysis based on component-relative-entropy by LITFI, R. A

“…Recently results from detection and information theory have been used to predict performance of human observers in experiments involving the discriminability…”
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Informational processing of complex sound. III : Interference by LUTFI, R. A

“…In this study, theoretical results from information theory and detection theory are applied to provide a formal analysis of the interaction of target and…”
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Auditory discrimination of material changes in a struck-clamped bar by Lutfi, R A, Oh, E L

“…The principles of theoretical acoustics were applied to approximately reconstruct the sound pressure waveform at the ear as would be generated by an idealized…”
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Effect of masker harmonicity on informational masking by Oh, E L, Lutfi, R A

“…Detection thresholds for a tone in an unfamiliar tonal pattern can be greatly elevated under conditions of masker uncertainty [Neff and Green, Percept…”
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Predicting frequency selectivity in forward masking from simultaneous masking by LUTFI, R. A

“…Measures of frequency selectivity from forward masking suggest sharper tuning than those from simultaneous masking. To account for this result, various…”
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Spectral weights for overall level discrimination in listeners with sensorineural hearing loss by Doherty, K A, Lutfi, R A

“…A conditional-on-a-single-stimulus (COSS) analysis procedure [B. G. Berg, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, 1743-1746 (1989)] was used to measure the weight or relative…”
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Informational processing of complex sound. I: Intensity discrimination by LUTFI, R. A

“…This paper reports on some initial experiments using the sample discrimination paradigm to investigate normal-hearing listeners' ability to process information…”
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Informational processing of complex sound. II, Cross-dimensional analysis by LUTFI, R. A

“…A series of experiments investigated listeners' ability simultaneously to process information across different acoustic dimensions. On each trial, the listener…”
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How much masking is informational masking ? by LUFTI, R. A

“…It is estimated that 22% of the masking observed in many traditional tone-in-noise detection experiments is due to uncertainty associated with trial-to-trial…”
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Spectral weights in level discrimination by preschool children: analytic listening conditions by Stellmack, M A, Willihnganz, M S, Wightman, F L, Lutfi, R A

“…In this series of experiments, adult and child listeners were required to attend to a target tone in the presence of two distracters and to indicate in which…”
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Discrimination of random, time-varying spectra with statistical constraints by Lutfi, R A

“…In the present study, a sample-discrimination procedure is used to examine how various statistical constraints on random, time-varying spectra might aid…”
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