Inharmonic Speech Segregation

Inharmonic speech demos showing sound segregation.

Authors:  Sara Popham,  Dana Boebinger,  Dan P. W. Ellis,  Hideki Kawahara,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2018-05-29
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/inharmonic_speech_examples/index.html
Keywords:  sound-sources,  brain,  frequency,  harmonics,  English

Schema Learning for the Cocktail Party Problem

The cocktail party problem requires listeners to infer individual sound

Authors:  Kevin J.P. Woods & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2018-04-03
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/schema_learning/index.html
Keywords:  sound-sources,  audition,  schema

Source Repetition Stimuli

We used a simple generative model to synthesize novel sounds with naturalistic properties. We found that such sounds could be segregated and identified if they occurred more than once across different mixtures, even when the same sounds were impossible to segregate in single mixtures.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  David Wrobleski,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2011-01-18
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/source_repetition/index.html
Keywords:  speech,  audition,  sound-sources,  acoustics,  English

Spectral Completion of Paritally Masked Sounds

The auditory system uses the audible portions of an object's spectrum to infer the portions that are likely to have been masked, and that are thus not veridically present in the input to the auditory system.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott & Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2008-02-15
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/spec_comp_demos/spec_comp_page1.html
Keywords:  audition,  sound-sources,  masking,  perception