Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory-nerve data. II. Detection of tones in noise

Abstract

A binaural interaction model is described in which the peripheral transduction from acoustical waveforms to firing patterns on the auditory nerves is included explicitly. Quantitative predictions are compared with available data on the binaural detection of low-frequency tones masked by Gaussian noise. The model describes the parametric dependence of masking-level differences in almost all available data.