Figure 4.

Schematic spectrograms illustrating experimental paradigms for investigating comodulation masking release (CMR) for detecting a short tone signal. a. The “band-widening” paradigm showing a modulated narrowband noise (left) and a modulated broadband noise (right). b. The “flanking band” paradigm showing the on-signal masker, the flanking band masker and either the “uncorrelated” condition (left) or the “comodulated” condition (right). In the schematic examples depicted here, the magnitude of CMR would be greater in the conditions illustrated in the right panel for both paradigms.