摘要
The mechanism of the human auditory system in detecting sound signals with complex time frequency charcteristics in a white noise background was reviewed and discussed.The efficiency of such auditory detection was assessed by comparing it with that of parallel visual detection of the output of an analogous model displayed on the oscilloscope screen. The results suggest that the detection model of the human auditory system is quite similar to a tone correlator when the time frequency characteristics of the signal are known and to an energy detector when the signal is unknown. The relationship between the threshold signal to noise ratio and the signal duration is derived for different time frequency characteristics.
The mechanism of the human auditory system in detecting sound signals with complex time frequency charcteristics in a white noise background was reviewed and discussed.The efficiency of such auditory detection was assessed by comparing it with that of parallel visual detection of the output of an analogous model displayed on the oscilloscope screen. The results suggest that the detection model of the human auditory system is quite similar to a tone correlator when the time frequency characteristics of the signal are known and to an energy detector when the signal is unknown. The relationship between the threshold signal to noise ratio and the signal duration is derived for different time frequency characteristics.
