Subject: informational masking From: Ken Grant <grant(at)TIDALWAVE.NET> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:56:48 -0500Has anyone ever tried to reconcile the two apparently different definitions of informational masking? One appears to relate to the influence of stimulus uncertainty on detection and recognition, and the other to more semantic and linguistic operations that confuse subjects when responding to a speech target when the masker itself is intelligible speech. It seems that the fields of psychoacoustics and speech perception are currently engaged in efforts to to use one term to mean two different things. Or are these definitions really different? -- Ken W. Grant Walter Reed Army Medical Center Army Audiology and Speech Center Building 2, Room 6A53C Washington, DC 20307-5001 Work: 202-782-8596 Fax: 202-782-9228 email: grant(at)tidalwave.net