“…Research on human hearing demonstrates how noise can interfere with signal processing at both peripheral and central levels of the nervous system (Amiri & Jarollahi, 2020; Durlach et al, 2003; Kidd, 1994; Kidd et al, 2008; Shinn-Cunningham, 2013). Even when signals and noise differ sufficiently in frequency so as to produce little or no competing excitation in the periphery, noise can still make it difficult for the listeners to focus on the target signal when it shares other features with the signal, such as similar temporal patterns (Kidd, 1994), common spatial origin (Freyman et al, 2001; Ihlefeld and Shinn-Cunningham, 2008), and common onset/offset times (Neff & Dethlefs, 1995).…”