{"id":8371,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/masked_threshold\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:59","slug":"masked_threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/masked_threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of a listener to detect an auditory signal (e.g., a pure tone) amongst noise. &nbsp;It is typically expressed as decibles (<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">db<\/span>). &nbsp;A well-known example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/04\/120418135045.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/04\/120418135045.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cocktail party effect<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"sensitivity_threshold\">Sensitivity threshold<\/a>, <a href=\"temporal_resolution\">Temporal resolution<\/a>, <a href=\"temporal_contiguity_window\">Temporal contiguity window<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of a listener to detect an auditory signal (e.g., a pure tone) amongst noise. &nbsp;It is typically expressed as decibles (db). &nbsp;A well-known example is the cocktail party effect. &nbsp; See Sensitivity threshold, Temporal resolution, Temporal contiguity window<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}