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When the source of a tone moves with respect to a listener's ears, dichotic (or interaural) phase and amplitude modulations (PM and AM) are produced. Two experiments investigated the psychophysical characteristics of dichotic linear ramp modulations in phase and amplitude, and compared them with the psychophysics of diotic PM and AM. In experiment 1, subjects were substantially more sensitive to dichotic PM than diotic PM, but AM sensitivity was equivalent in the dichotic and diotic conditions. Thresholds for discriminating modulation direction were smaller than detection thresholds for dichotic AM, and both diotic AM and PM. Dichotic PM discrimination thresholds were similar to detection thresholds. In experiment 2, the effects of ramp duration were examined. Sensitivity to dichotic AM and PM, and diotic AM increased as duration was increased from 20 ms to 200 ms. The functions relating sensitivity to ramp duration differed across the stimuli; sensitivity to dichotic PM increased more rapidly than sensitivity to dichotic or diotic AM. This was also reflected in shorter time-constants and minimum integration times for dichotic PM detection. These findings support the hypothesis that the analysis of dichotic PM and AM rely on separate mechanisms. © 2003 Acoustical Society of America.
Author(s): Witton C, Simpson MIG, Henning GB, Rees A, Green GGR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Year: 2003
Volume: 113
Issue: 1
Pages: 468-477
ISSN (print): 0001-4966
ISSN (electronic): 1520-8524
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1525286
DOI: 10.1121/1.1525286
PubMed id: 12558284
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