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Spatial separation between competing speech streams reduces their confusion (informational masking), improving speech processing under challenging listening conditions. The precise stages of auditory processing involved in this benefit are not fully understood. This study used event-related potentials to examine the processing of target speech under conditions of informational masking and its spatial release. Participants detected noise-vocoded target speech presented with two-talker noise-vocoded masking speech. In separate conditions, the same set of targets were spatially co-located with maskers to produce informational masking and spatially separated from maskers using a perceptual manipulation to release the informational masking. An increase in N1 and P2 amplitude, consistent with cortical auditory evoked potentials, and a later sustained positivity (P300) were observed in response to target onsets only under conditions supporting release from informational masking. At target intensities above masking threshold in both spatial conditions, N1 and P2 latencies were shorter when targets and maskers were perceptually separated. These results indicate that spatial release from informational masking benefits speech representation beginning in the early stages of auditory perception. Additionally, these results suggest that the auditory evoked potential itself may be heavily dependent upon how information is perceptually organized rather than physically organized.

Spatial Release from Informational Masking Enhances the Early Cortical Representation of Speech Sounds