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auditory masking  

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  • Auditory masking refers to the situation in which one sound reduces a listener's ability to detect or discriminate another sound. We are all familiar with situations in which what we are trying to hear is obscured by the presence of other sounds. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Mind; Auditory Masking]

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