The dip condition isolates how a soft syllable embedded between louder ones is perceived
Evidence
The nonsense words were then adjusted to produce the two level conditions illustrated in Fig. 1 : In the “dip” condition (left column), the level of the second syllable was 70, 60, 50 or 40 dB, while the first and third syllables were fixed at 70 dB. In the “constant” condition (right column), all three syllables were set to 70, 60, 50 or 40 dB. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4060
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- QUESTION: Worth noting how the dip condition models real speech, where unstressed syllables are softer amid louder context.
Related
- Comparing dip and constant levels isolates how relative loudness shifts affect syllable perception. (similarity 0.91)
- The dip minus constant condition contrast specifically exposes compression’s effect (similarity 0.90)
- Comparing syllable-level dips against whole-word level changes isolates peripheral compression effects (similarity 0.85)
- Speech-level dips and impairment type independently affect syllable recognition with no interaction (similarity 0.81)
- Target syllables flanked by loud neighbors suffer forward masking within 100 ms (similarity 0.78)