- Listening to speech in the presence of other sounds
C J Darwin
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:1011-21. 2008
..The separation of sounds is arousing substantial attention in psychoacoustics and in computer science. An effective solution to the problem of separating sounds would have important practical applications...
- Auditory objects of attention: the role of interaural time differences
C J Darwin
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, England
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 25:617-29. 1999
- Effects of fundamental frequency and vocal-tract length changes on attention to one of two simultaneous talkers
Christopher J Darwin
Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
J Acoust Soc Am 114:2913-22. 2003
..The increase in performance varied with the intonation patterns of individual talkers, being smallest for those talkers who showed most variability in their intonation patterns between different utterances...
- Limits to the role of a common fundamental frequency in the fusion of two sounds with different spatial cues
C J Darwin
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
J Acoust Soc Am 116:502-6. 2004
..This constraint mirrors the natural filtering by head-shadow of sound sources presented to one side. The mechanisms underlying perceptual fusion may thus be similar to those underlying auditory localization...
- Effectiveness of spatial cues, prosody, and talker characteristics in selective attention
C J Darwin
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
J Acoust Soc Am 107:970-7. 2000
..Overall, the results show that prosodic and vocal-tract size cues can override spatial cues in determining which target word belongs in an attended sentence...
- Formant-frequency matching between sounds with different bandwidths and on different fundamental frequencies
Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
J Acoust Soc Am 110:409-15. 2001
- Processing unattended speech
Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, CNRS, Universite Rene Descartes, Institut de Medecine Aerospatiale du Service de Sante des Armees, France
J Acoust Soc Am 119:4027-40. 2006
..The results demonstrate that repetition priming can be produced by words in unattended continuous speech provided that there is a difference in F0 range between the voices...
- Unattended speech processing: effect of vocal-tract length
J Acoust Soc Am 121:EL90-5. 2007
..A priming effect of 13 ms was found when messages were in the same F0 range but had different (15%-30%) vocal-tract length, suggesting that the processing of unattended speech strongly relies on the presence of perceptual grouping cues...
- Across-ear interference from parametrically degraded synthetic speech signals in a dichotic cocktail-party listening task
Douglas S Brungart
Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL HECB, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 117:292-304. 2005
..These results suggest that speech-like fluctuations in the spectral envelope of a signal play an important role in determining the amount of across-ear interference that a signal will produce in a dichotic cocktail-party listening task...