Gerald Kidd
Boston University
128 Papers
542 Citations
Gerald Kidd is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Masking (art) & Intelligibility (communication). The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 117 publications. Previous affiliations of Gerald Kidd include Purdue University.
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Papers
The effect of spatial separation on informational and energetic masking of speech.
TL;DR: The results suggest that, in these conditions, the advantage due to spatial separation of sources is greater for informational masking than for energetic masking.
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The advantage of knowing where to listen
TL;DR: The results of the current experiments suggest that the focus of attention along the spatial dimension can play a very significant role in solving the "cocktail party" problem.
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Reducing informational masking by sound segregation
TL;DR: Informational masking was reduced using three stimulus presentation schemes that were intended to perceptually segregate the signal from the masker using a difference in the spectral or temporal pattern of the signal and masker provided the detection cue.
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Informational masking: Counteracting the effects of stimulus uncertainty by decreasing target-masker similarity
Nathaniel I. Durlach,Christine R. Mason,Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham,Tanya L. Arbogast,H. Steven Colburn,Gerald Kidd +5 more
TL;DR: The detection threshold for a tonal target in random multitone maskers presented simultaneously with the target tone was measured for two conditions using the same set of five listeners, finding large decreases in the amount of masking for the D condition relative to the S condition.
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The effects of hearing loss and age on the benefit of spatial separation between multiple talkers in reverberant rooms.
TL;DR: Evidence is provided for a large benefit of spatial separation in a multitalker situation that is likely due to perceptual factors, however, this benefit is significantly reduced by both hearing loss and reverberation.
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