Target syllables flanked by loud neighbors suffer forward masking within 100 ms

Evidence

Multiple comparisons with the Tukey-Kramer HSD test were performed. There were significant differences between all of the hearing impairment conditions (α= 0.05). ΔSRT provides a measure of the difficulty of the task, and the statistical analysis shows that the different hearing impairment simulations vary in their difficulty. In addition, ΔSRT for the dip conditions is larger than ΔSRT for constant conditions for all of the hearing impairment simulations. This difference in difficulty could be the result of forward masking since the gap between offset of the first syllable and the onset of the target syllable is less than 100 ms, and the third syllable limits any post processing of the second syllable. The dip condition would be expected to produce more masking than the constant condition, especially when the target syllable is sandwiched between syllables whose levels are 20 or 30 dB greater. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4079