Normal hearing yields a temporal resolution factor near unity

Evidence

The attributes of natural sounds typically change with time. Only periodic or noise-like sounds may sound the same for a longer time. Our hearing is very sensitive to temporal changes in sound, and a simple method to present the temporal variations in sound is to plot the instantaneous amplitude against time, which is called the amplitude envelope of sound. Another, slightly more complex method is to plot the spectrogram of the signal. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 685 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hearing-impaired listeners fail to gain temporal resolution in background noise — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1933; Perception of changing sound requires simultaneous time and frequency resolution; Hearing is highly sensitive to temporal changes in sound — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 685 (+2 more)

Related

• Hearing is highly sensitive to temporal changes in sound (similarity 0.91)
• Hearing’s temporal resolution varies from 1-2 ms depending on frequency (similarity 0.91)
• Two kinds of sound change activate different processing features in hearing (similarity 0.87)
• Perception of changing sound requires simultaneous time and frequency resolution (similarity 0.86)
• Temporal change is a defining feature of natural sound perception (similarity 0.86)
• Forward temporal structure is essential to auditory scene analysis. (similarity 0.86)
• Temporal processing is essential for hearing speech and music (similarity 0.85)
• Auditory attention requires temporal variation in any sound signal (similarity 0.84)
• Hearing-impaired listeners fail to gain temporal resolution in background noise (similarity 0.84)
• All information-bearing sound must vary over time (similarity 0.84)
• The TMTF yields three distinct measures of temporal resolution (similarity 0.83)
• Sound must vary over time to hold listener attention (similarity 0.82)
• Frequency and time resolution are mutually exclusive trade-offs in any analysis of sound. (similarity 0.82)
• Hearing waveform beats proves the ear detects time-domain shape (similarity 0.82)
• The ear’s time-frequency resolution cannot be modeled by fixed-length frames (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Hearing is highly sensitive to temporal changes in sound #corroborates (0.85) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 685
• Perception of changing sound requires simultaneous time and frequency resolution #expands (0.80)
• Forward temporal structure is essential to auditory scene analysis. #expands (0.78)
• Hearing-impaired listeners fail to gain temporal resolution in background noise #corroborates (0.75) — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1933
• Binaural sound localization depends on ear-level temporal and intensity encoding efficiency #expands (0.72) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 70