Development of the A§E test battery for assessment of pitch perception in speech

Clinical Assessment of Pitch Perception

“…Whenever the procedure was unable to converge to a threshold (e.g., the subject's JND is not in the range of the stimulus domain), a JND of 220 Hz was coded for the current analysis. Both HI and DI tests are implemented in the A §E psychoacoustic test battery (6,9).…”

A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study of Tinnitus Awareness and Impact in a Population of Adult Cochlear Implant Users

“…Tinnitus awareness and tinnitus impact scores for this individual were both negligible (a value of 0.1 in both cases). For all respondents, sound field hearing thresholds and test results from Bamford–Kowal–Bench (BKB) sentences in quiet and noise (Bench et al 1979) and Auditory Speech Sound Evaluation 20-phoneme contrasts (Heeren et al 2012), were obtained, where available, for the map that was in use at the time that the questionnaire was completed. The median percent correct scores were 87% (N = 87), 64% (N = 34), and 95% (N = 168) for BKB-in-quiet, BKB-in-noise, and ASSE 20 phoneme contrasts for the respondent population.…”

Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children With Cochlear Implants

“…While the hearing loss itself and the use of CIs may impair the ability to identify gaps and vowel duration and to discriminate frequencies when compared with NH, the acoustic changes of prosodic boundaries are generally larger than the thresholds in psychoacoustic studies with nonlinguistic stimuli obtained by most CI users. However, these nonlinguistic acoustic thresholds for pitch perception (and, perhaps, temporal features) may overestimate identification and discrimination of acoustic changes in linguistic contexts (Heeren et al, 2012). The acoustic characteristics of the boundaries may be perceptible but may not be integrated with syntactic knowledge.…”