XIE Zhiwen JIN Jing

(School of Physics & technology, South China University of Technology  Guangzhou 510640)

Received Oct.19, 2007

Revised May 7, 2008

Abstract With the virtual reproduction of headphone, the influence of delay time between masker and masked signal on forward masking when sound images are virtually spatial separated in azimuth is studied. The result shows that the thresholds tend to decrease dramatically with the increase in delay time. Furthermore, in case of spatial separation, there are differences of masking thresholds with the maximum about 15 dB. However, when the masker level is 70 dB, the difference of the thresholds increases a little as the delay time increases from 20 ms to 40 ms, which can be explained by the time integration effect and basilar membrane response.

PACS numbers: 43.66