Detection of a tone burst in continuous- and gated-noise maskers; defects of signal frequency, duration, and masker level

Abstract

Gated‐noise maskers produce more masking of a tone burst than do continuous‐noise maskers. The difference between the two conditions appears to increase at short signal durations with a maximum difference at about 1000 Hz. The size of the effect is generally small, 1–3 dB, reaching a maximum of 4–7 dB for 1000 Hz at 10 msec and high masker levels.