The frequency selectivity of an auditory filter system is often conceptualized as a bank of bandpass auditory filters. Over the past 30 years, many simultaneous masking experiments using notched-noise maskers have been done to define the shape of the auditory filters (e.g., Glasberg and Moore 1990; Patterson and Nimmo-Smith 1980; Rosen and Baker, 1994). The studies of Glasberg and Moore (2000) and Baker and Rosen (2006) are notable inasmuch as they measured the human auditory filter shape over most of the range of frequencies and levels encountered in everyday hearing. The advantage of using notched-noise masking is that one can avoid off-frequency listening and investigate filter asymmetry. However, the derived filter shapes are also affected by the effects of suppression.
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Unoki, M., Miyauchi, R., Tan, CT. (2007). Estimates of Tuning of Auditory Filter Using Simultaneous and Forward Notched-noise Masking. In: Kollmeier, B., et al. Hearing – From Sensory Processing to Perception. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73009-5_3
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