Monaural Detection of a Phase Difference between Clicks
Don A. Ronken · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1970
Pairs of very brief pulses can be arranged to produce transient signals having spectra that differ only in power, only in phase, or in both power and phase. Conventional intensity discrimination for such click pairs is obtained by using the signals that differ only in their power spectra. Some of the corresponding signals that differ only in their phase spectra are also readily discriminable. An attempt is made to assess the relative saliency of the power and phase variables by adding the phase cue as a distracting feature to the power-discrimination task. The presence of such an uncorrelated phase cue can lower the detectability of power differences.