Premasking measurements require trained listeners and yield poor reproducibility

Evidence

The temporal region in which premasking appears was introduced in Fig. 4.17. Premasking is mostly measured with single masker bursts, and reproducible results can only be obtained from trained subjects. Even for these subjects, the reproducibility of the results is worse than in simultaneous masking or post-masking. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 513

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Premasking measurements are only reproducible with trained subjects and remain noisy (similarity 0.96)
• Listener age worsens masked speech recognition even with equal sensation levels (similarity 0.79)
• Postmasking can last up to 200 milliseconds after a masker ends (similarity 0.79)
• Masking can occur even when the masker follows the test sound in time. (similarity 0.79)
• Masking depends on stimulus fluctuations in ways steady-state models cannot predict. (similarity 0.79)
• Raising presentation level reduces the masking-release advantage from spectrally sparse or unmodulated maskers (similarity 0.79)
• Premasking arises from the buildup time of sensation, not foreknowledge (similarity 0.79)
• A following loud sound reduces the loudness of an earlier short sound (similarity 0.79)
• A masker can mask sounds occurring before it is switched on. (similarity 0.78)
• Hearing masks sounds before they occur via slower and faster sensory build-up times (similarity 0.78)
• Listener training improves performance plateau after only four sessions. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Listener training improves performance plateau after only four sessions. #contradicts (0.85) — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1076