Longer masker sounds produce stronger forward masking

Evidence

The forward masking effect is a complex phenomenon, which also depends on the length of the masker sound. Figure 9.12 shows the effect for maskers lasting 5 ms and 200 ms. The effect is significantly milder with the shorter sound. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1023

Categorization

• XREF: Shorter concurrent sounds that cause less forward masking matter for time-domain audio coding and transient sound design.