A distortion-weighted glimpsing metric developed for estimating monaural speech intelligibility is extended to predict binaural speech intelligibility in noise. Two aspects of binaural listening, the better ear effect and the binaural advantage, are taken into account in the new metric, which predicts intelligibility using monaural target and masker signals and their location, and is therefore ...

In a binaural hearing aid system, output signals for the left and the right ear are generated by exchanging information between the two hearing aids. A significant noise reduction can be achieved using the binaural multi-channel Wiener filter (MWF), which requires all microphone signals from both hearing aids. However, the limited bandwidth of the binaural link typically does not allow to trans...

The human auditory system is particularly sensitive to spatial information conveyed in the first two milliseconds of an auditory event. Therefore, in order to analyse a stream of binaural data in a perceptually relevant way, it is important to determine quickly and precisely the onset of each event within a data stream. This paper details the design of an auditory onset detector which is intend...

1603 Binaural recordings enable us to capture all sound attributes including spatial information, room effect, and source characteristics in a given environment. It has been shown that blocked-entrance binaural recordings provide advantages over open-entrance recordings, primarily because the blocked-entrance recordings are not influenced by the ear canal acoustics of the individual. However, b...

In this paper, we compare the performance of using binaural audio features in place of single channel features for sound event detection. Three different binaural features are studied and evaluated on the publicly available TUT Sound Events 2017 dataset of length 70 minutes. Sound event detection is performed separately with single channel and binaural features using stacked convolutional and r...

This study tested the use of binaural cues in adult dyslexic listeners during speech-in-noise comprehension. Participants listened to words presented in three different noise-types (Babble-, Fluctuatingand Stationary-noise) in three different listening configurations: dichotic, monaural and binaural. In controls, we obtained an important informational masking in the monaural configuration mostl...

Human creativity relies on a multitude of cognitive processes, some of which are influenced by the neurotransmitter dopamine. This suggests that creativity could be enhanced by interventions that either modulate the production or transmission of dopamine directly, or affect dopamine-driven processes. In the current study we hypothesized that creativity can be influenced by means of binaural bea...

A consistent organizational feature of auditory cortex is a clustered representation of binaural properties. Here we address two questions. What is the intrinsic organization of binaural clusters and to what extent does intracortical processing contribute to binaural representation. We address these issues in the auditory cortex of the pallid bat. The pallid bat listens to prey-generated noise ...

Interaural differences in stimulus intensity and timing are major cues for sound localization. In mammals, these cues are first processed in the lateral and medial superior olive by interaction of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs from ipsi- and contralateral cochlear nucleus neurons. To preserve sound localization acuity following changes in the acoustic environment, the processing of ...

This thesis concerns a new zero-crossing-based binaural model for spatial hearing. Conventional binaural model computes cross-correlations of binaural signals for the estimation of the interaural time difference which is a primary spatial cue. However, the cross-correlationbased binaural processing model requires high computational complexity and suffers from inaccuracies in localizing sound so...