Masked-threshold growth for tones deviates sharply from Weber’s law at high frequencies

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• Low-frequency tones become relatively louder as level increases. (similarity 0.82)
• Frequency separation between two tones systematically shifts fusion, roughness, then resolution (similarity 0.81)
• Raising a tone’s level lowers low-frequency pitch but raises high-frequency pitch (similarity 0.80)
• Noise-burst masked thresholds rise more gradually than tone-burst thresholds with shorter duration (similarity 0.80)
• Amounts of masking are expressed as dB differences, not absolute dB SPL levels. (similarity 0.80)
• The excitation-level model of masking reproduces measured thresholds at both low and high frequencies (similarity 0.79)
• The near-miss of Weber’s law means threshold slopes can reach 3 to 6 (similarity 0.79)
• White noise masked thresholds rise 10 dB per decade above 1 kHz (similarity 0.79)
• Masked-threshold shape is nonlinear and level-dependent, steepening only at low masker levels. (similarity 0.79)
• Tone-on-tone masking thresholds are measured via narrow-band noise maskers instead (similarity 0.79)
• Masked threshold rise toward high frequencies is about 100 dB per octave. (similarity 0.78)