Signal detection in computer-synthesized noise

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Abstract
Human observers detected sinusoidal and pulse-train signals in noise derived from 2 computer synthesized sources and from a Gaussian noise source. The synthesized noise stimuli were generated from sequences of pulses whose amplitudes were drawn for 2 divergent types of probability distributions: a centrally peaked distribution and a bimodal distribution. No differences in the detectability of signals in these noise stimuli were evident at pulse rates of 1000, 2000, 4000 or 10,000 Hz. Subjects could not discriminate between the 2 types of computer generated maskers at any pulse rate. The data support a spectrum-analyzer model of detection in which multiband filtering of the input smooths the masker energy in each spectral region to approximate the Gaussian case.

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