The effect of speech masking on the human subcortical response to continuous speech.

ABSTRACT: Auditory masking-the interference of the encoding and processing of an acoustic stimulus imposed by one or more competing stimuli-is nearly omnipresent in daily life, and presents a critical barrier to many listeners, including people with hearing loss, users of hearing aids and cochlear implants, and people with auditory processing disorders. The perceptual aspects of masking have been actively studied for several decades, and particular emphasis has been placed on masking of speech by other speech sounds. The neural effects of such masking, especially at the subcortical level, have been much less studied, in large part due to the technical limitations of making such measurements. Recent work has allowed estimation of the auditory brainstem response (ABR), whose characteristic waves are l

SUBMITTER: Polonenko MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11661217 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature