A brief transient signal with no steady state isolates cochlear suppression effects.

Evidence

The signal was a 10-ms, 2-kHz sinusoid with 5-ms onset and offset ramps and no steady state portion. … This signal frequency has been used in previous studies on aging effects on suppression (Sommers and Gehr 1998 , 2010 ; Dubno and Ahlstrom 2001a , 2001b ; Gifford and Bacon 2005 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 931

Categorization

• XREF: The no-steady-state design matters for how masking and gain reduction play out across the physiology timeline.