Mental Process
perceptual masking
Subclass of:
Auditory Perception; Visual Perception
Definitions related to perceptual masking:
  • Interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness; frequently associated with visual and auditory perception.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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