Masking thresholds can be transformed into time functions of specific loudness
Evidence
In doing so, the excitation level and specific loudness have to be treated as time-dependent values. Excitation is correlated with masking, therefore the masked thresholds produced in premasking, simultaneous masking and postmasking can be used and transformed into time functions for specific loudness. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1290
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Masking reduces to a comparison of excitation-level patterns over frequency and time (similarity 0.90)
- Postmasking can last up to 200 milliseconds after a masker ends (similarity 0.88)
- Masking effectiveness depends on masker-signal power, frequency, and timing relationships (similarity 0.88)
- Masking relates closely to excitation level patterns. (similarity 0.87)
- Postmasking decay needs two separate time constants depending on masker duration (similarity 0.87)
- A masker can mask sounds occurring before it is switched on. (similarity 0.87)
- Masked threshold rises once noise bandwidth exceeds the critical bandwidth (similarity 0.87)
- Masking operates on a continuous scale between audible and fully masked. (similarity 0.86)
- Sound masking extends in time before and after the masker (similarity 0.86)
- Beyond threshold, masker and signal levels rise one-for-one in decibels (similarity 0.86)
- The masked threshold’s high-frequency slope steepness depends on masker level (similarity 0.86)
- Partially masked sounds have a reduced loudness range in both time and spectrum (similarity 0.86)
- Louder maskers increasingly mask high frequencies over low ones. (similarity 0.86)
- Masking asymmetry grows as masker amplitude increases, favoring upward masking (similarity 0.86)
- Forward masking requires maskers with similar frequency components and high intensity (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Sound masking extends in time before and after the masker
#expands(0.80) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1606