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Many sounds (pulses, bursts, also plosives) have a brief and broad-band character, showing a high degree of temporal synchronization along the frequency scale. For instance, after 1/3-octave band filtering, the resulting envelopes will peak at approximately the same instant. Thus, in general, such sounds will lead to synchronized stimulation in many critical bands. This paper is concerned with the significance of this stimulus parameter — the degree of spectral synchrony — for signal detection.
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© 1987 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht
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Houtgast, T. (1987). On the Significance of Spectral Synchrony for Signal Detection. In: Schouten, M.E.H. (eds) The Psychophysics of Speech Perception. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3629-4_9
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