Concepedia

Masking Release

Masking Release is a perceptual phenomenon in auditory cognition whereby the detectability or discriminability of a target sound improves in the presence of a masker due to specific spatiotemporal, spectral, or cognitive factors that reduce the detrimental effects of auditory masking.

275

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12.9K

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452

Authors

194

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2017–2026

41

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Publications

275

The role of perceived spatial separation in the unmasking of speech

Richard L. Freyman, Karen S. Helfer, Daniel D. McCall et al. · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1999 · 499 citations

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Effect of number of masking talkers and auditory priming on informational masking in speech recognition

Richard L. Freyman, Uma Balakrishnan, Karen S. Helfer · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2004 · 326 citations · Full text

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The effects of hearing loss and age on the benefit of spatial separation between multiple talkers in reverberant rooms

Nicole Marrone, Christine R. Mason, Gerald Kidd · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2008 · 193 citations · Full text

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Rescuing stimuli from invisibility: Inducing a momentary release from visual masking with pre-target entrainment

Kyle E. Mathewson, Monica Fabiani, Gabriele Gratton et al. · Cognition · 2009 · 190 citations

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Speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking in young children

Ruth Y. Litovsky · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2005 · 189 citations

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Authors

452

  1. JW
    Joseph W. Hall

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    25 publications · 733 citations

    18

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  2. GK
    Gerald Kidd

    Boston University, United States

    20 publications · 1.6K citations

    18

    h-index

  3. CR
    Christine R. Mason

    Boston University, United States

    19 publications · 1.6K citations

    17

    h-index

  4. JH
    John H. Grose

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    24 publications · 703 citations

    17

    h-index

  5. EB
    Emily Buss

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    16 publications · 436 citations

    13

    h-index

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Institutions

194

  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    22 h-index

    79 publications

    2.3K citations

  2. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    20 h-index

    84 publications

    6.2K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    13 h-index

    24 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

    Oldenburg, Germany

    12 h-index

    33 publications

    931 citations

  6. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    11 h-index

    28 publications

    1.4K citations

  7. MRC Institute of Hearing Research

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    14 publications

    535 citations

  8. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    1.2K citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 164 publications · 8.9K citations

    54

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  2. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

    JSLHR · 16 publications · 564 citations

    13

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  3. Ear and Hearing

    12 publications · 394 citations

    12

    h-index

  4. American Journal of Audiology

    AJA · 6 publications · 195 citations

    6

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  5. Trends in Hearing

    6 publications · 241 citations

    6

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