The effect of presentation level on spectral weights for sentences

Lauren Calandruccio, Emily Buss, Karen A. Doherty

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Abstract

Psychophysical data indicate that spectral weights tend to increase with increasing presentation level at high frequencies. The present study examined whether spectral weights for speech perception are similarly affected by presentation level. Stimuli were sentences filtered into five contiguous frequency bands and presented at each of two levels (75 and 95 dB sound pressure level [SPL]). For the highest band (2807-10 000 Hz), normal-hearing listeners' weights were higher for the higher presentation level. Weights for the 95-dB-SPL level resembled those previously estimated for hearing-impaired listeners tested at comparably high levels, suggesting that hearing loss itself may not play a large role in spectral weighting for a sentence recognition task.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)466-471
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume139
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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