Sound perception decays slowly and can mask a following sound

Evidence

From the field of sound that you are hearing, select a sound. Focus on it and amplify it with your imagination. Continue to hold and amplify the sound, even if the real sound has stopped. When you are done, scan your body/mind and notate your feelings. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 332 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A following loud sound reduces the loudness of an earlier short sound — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1241; Hearing masks sounds before they occur via slower and faster sensory build-up times; Sounds mask both preceding and following sounds in time (+5 more)

Related

• Sounds mask both preceding and following sounds in time (similarity 0.86)
• Loudness develops over time after a sound ends, so later noise can interrupt it (similarity 0.85)
• A following loud sound reduces the loudness of an earlier short sound (similarity 0.85)
• Sounds with a spectral gap leave a clear tonal after-image when switched off (similarity 0.84)
• Forward masking measures temporal processing between distinct sounds. (similarity 0.84)
• Forward masking reveals how the ear’s perceptual representation of sound decays over time (similarity 0.83)
• Imagined amplification allows a heard sound to persist after it stops (similarity 0.83)
• Hearing masks sounds before they occur via slower and faster sensory build-up times (similarity 0.83)
• A masker can mask sounds occurring before it is switched on. (similarity 0.82)
• Postmasking can last up to 200 milliseconds after a masker ends (similarity 0.81)
• Sounds mask both preceding and following sounds but forward masking dominates. (similarity 0.81)
• Slow release from forward masking impairs comprehension of rapid speech. (similarity 0.81)
• Sound masking extends in time before and after the masker (similarity 0.80)
• Forward masking decay slows markedly after masker offset in hearing loss (similarity 0.80)
• Masking thresholds can be transformed into time functions of specific loudness (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Sound masking extends in time before and after the masker #corroborates (0.95)
• Forward masking measures temporal processing between distinct sounds. #expands (0.90)
• Imagined amplification allows a heard sound to persist after it stops #complicates (0.70) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 332