Abstract
Exactly half a century ago Wegel and Lane (1924) published the first systematic quantitative results of masking with pure tones. In subsequent pure-tone masking experiments the frequency region where probe and masker nearly coincide has been treated rather stepmotherly. One reason for this undoubtedly is that in this region beats are complicating the picture (e. g. Wegel/Lane, 1924, Egan/Hake, 1950, Zwicker, 1967). As a consequence, many authors avoid small frequency differences between probe and masker or use noise as a masker. But even the application of narrow-band noise does not completely avoid intensity fluctuations in the stimulus i. e. masker + probe (Bos/de Boer, 1966).
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Vogten, L.L.M. (1974). Pure-Tone Masking: A New Result from a New Method. In: Zwicker, E., Terhardt, E. (eds) Facts and Models in Hearing. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65902-7_20
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