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The detectability of a narrow-band noise is shown to be a function of the interaural correlation of both the signal and the masker. The maximal release from masking occurs when the addition of the signal results in a reduction in the correlation of the masking noise. The results show that people are far more sensitive to a decrease in the correlation between the stimuli at the two ears than to an increase.
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1. The principal results of this study were presented to the 70th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nov. 1965, St. Louis, Mo. (J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 1965, 38, 929).
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Wilbanks, W.A., Whitmore, J.K. Detection of a narrow-band noise as a function of its interaural correlation. Psychon Sci 8, 235–236 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331638
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