In Auditory Masking with Complex Stimuli (pp. 343-352 of The Cognitive Neurosciences, Fourth Edition, MIT Press, 2009), Virginia M. Richards and Gerald Kidd, Jr. study the effect of perturbations on auditory signal perception. They call those perturbations masking, and they make the distinction between physical and informational masking.
An example of physical masking is noise from the street that makes the speech hardly audible. An example of informational masking is interfering conversations that make it hard to make sense out of the speech. The authors study those distinctions for a better understanding of human auditory processing.
The question I'm wondering about is how prevalent is masking, both physical and informational, in our perceptory system and its accompanying processing capabilities. The shadow of night is physical masking, and the combination of odors is informational masking. Venetians masks are both physical and informational maskings?
A person with a mask has an identity, just as the same person without a mask. Those identities are at the same time same and different. In terms of Computer Theology (p. 304), the explanation is that the two different identities are those of the person with the mask and of the person without the mask. We call those identities differential. But there is another identity, which we call experiential. In this case, there is one experiential identity for the person in front of you, whether carrying or not carrying a mask.
Back to the auditory system. Is physical masking experiential and informational masking differential? Let me know what you think.
Bertrand du Castel
An example of physical masking is noise from the street that makes the speech hardly audible. An example of informational masking is interfering conversations that make it hard to make sense out of the speech. The authors study those distinctions for a better understanding of human auditory processing.
The question I'm wondering about is how prevalent is masking, both physical and informational, in our perceptory system and its accompanying processing capabilities. The shadow of night is physical masking, and the combination of odors is informational masking. Venetians masks are both physical and informational maskings?
A person with a mask has an identity, just as the same person without a mask. Those identities are at the same time same and different. In terms of Computer Theology (p. 304), the explanation is that the two different identities are those of the person with the mask and of the person without the mask. We call those identities differential. But there is another identity, which we call experiential. In this case, there is one experiential identity for the person in front of you, whether carrying or not carrying a mask.
Back to the auditory system. Is physical masking experiential and informational masking differential? Let me know what you think.
Bertrand du Castel
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