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  • Title: Estimating critical bandwidths of temporal sensitivity to low-frequency amplitude modulation.
    Author: Shim AI, Berg BG.
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am; 2013 May; 133(5):2834-8. PubMed ID: 23654389.
    Abstract:
    Auditory filter bandwidths are measured for a temporal process using an amplitude-modulation detection task. The signal is a 200 Hz wide, sinusoidally amplitude-modulated band of noise centered within an unmodulated notched-noise masker. A modulation rate of 10 Hz is used to avoid possible information loss at more central processing levels for high modulation rates. Threshold functions are obtained for 10-14 notch widths for each of four different center frequencies (0.6, 1, 2, and 4 kHz) to determine the maximum notch width at which the masker has an effect. The ratio of center frequency to maximum notch width is ~2 at all center frequencies. It is proposed that the bandwidths observed in temporal tasks, which are consistently greater than expected from the viewpoint of critical band theory, be characterized as "temporal critical bands." This proposal does not oppose, but provides a complement to the traditional critical band obtained in tasks involving spectral discrimination.
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