Title
Dynamic Reweighting of Auditory Modulation Filters.
Abstract
Sound waveforms convey information largely via amplitude modulations (AM). A large body of experimental evidence has provided support for a modulation (bandpass) filterbank. Details of this model have varied over time partly reflecting different experimental conditions and diverse datasets from distinct task strategies, contributing uncertainty to the bandwidth measurements and leaving important issues unresolved. We adopt here a solely data-driven measurement approach in which we first demonstrate how different models can be subsumed within a common 'cascade' framework, and then proceed to characterize the cascade via system identification analysis using a single stimulus/task specification and hence stable task rules largely unconstrained by any model or parameters. Observers were required to detect a brief change in level superimposed onto random level changes that served as AM noise; the relationship between trial-by-trial noisy fluctuations and corresponding human responses enables targeted identification of distinct cascade elements. The resulting measurements exhibit a dynamic complex picture in which human perception of auditory modulations appears adaptive in nature, evolving from an initial lowpass to bandpass modes (with broad tuning, Q similar to 1) following repeated stimulus exposure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005019
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Field
DocType
Volume
Biology,Filter bank,Speech recognition,Modulation,Bandwidth (signal processing),Cascade,Stimulus (physiology),System identification,Perception,Modulation (music)
Journal
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
1553-734X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eva R. Joosten130.79
Shihab Shamma255467.25
Christian Lorenzi300.34
Peter Neri442.17