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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 134, Issue 1, Pages 396-406Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.4807815
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- NIH-NIDCD [R01-DC010813]
- NSF CAREER award [CCF-1054687]
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1341966] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Tone-in-noise detection has been studied for decades; however, it is not completely understood what cue or cues are used by listeners for this task. Model predictions based on energy in the critical band are generally more successful than those based on temporal cues, except when the energy cue is not available. Nevertheless, neither energy nor temporal cues can explain the predictable variance for all listeners. In this study, it was hypothesized that better predictions of listeners' detection performance could be obtained using a nonlinear combination of energy and temporal cues, even when the energy cue was not available. The combination of different cues was achieved using the logarithmic likelihood-ratio test (LRT), an optimal detector in signal detection theory. A nonlinear LRT-based combination of cues was proposed, given that the cues have Gaussian distributions and the covariance matrices of cue values from noise-alone and tone-plus-noise conditions are different. Predictions of listeners' detection performance for three different sets of reproducible noises were computed with the proposed model. Results showed that predictions for hit rates approached the predictable variance for all three datasets, even when an energy cue was not available. (C) 2013 Acoustical Society of America.
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