Energetic masking of targets may not fully explain hearing-impaired spatial speech performance

Evidence

However the glimpses may not all be above threshold, particularly for listeners with hearing loss. Thus we conducted an experiment in which we presented “glimpsed” stimuli to NH and HI listeners to measure their ability to use the available target information. Performance was compared to natural binaural performance to determine to what extent target audibility/availability can explain performance. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1756

Categorization

• QUESTION: The gap between glimpsed-stimulus and natural-binaural performance would reveal what else beyond audibility explains spatial unmasking.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1756