Developmental perspectives on the localization and detection of auditory signals

Schneider, Bruce A.; Trehub, Sandra E.; Thorpe, Leigh A.

doi:10.3758/bf03211611

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“…The development of across-channel intensity resolution however, is poorly understood. The relatively slow maturation of intensity representation and sensitivity (Olsho et al, 1987;Trehub, 1988;Werner and Gillenwater, 1990;Schneider et al, 1991;Tharpe and Ashmead, 2001) might, therefore, constrain the representation of the power spectrum in the developing auditory system.…”

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Effects of age and hearing mechanism on spectral resolution in normal hearing and cochlear-implanted listeners

Horn

Dudley

Dedhia

et al. 2017

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Spectral resolution limits speech perception with a cochlear implant (CI) in post-lingually deaf adults. However, the development of spectral resolution in pre-lingually deaf implanted children is not well understood. Acoustic spectral resolution was measured as a function of age (school-age versus adult) in CI and normal-hearing (NH) participants using spectral ripple discrimination (SRD). A 3-alternative forced-choice task was used to obtain SRD thresholds at five ripple depths. Effects of age and hearing method on SRD and spectral modulation transfer function (SMTF) slope (reflecting frequency resolution) and x-intercept (reflecting across-channel intensity resolution) were examined. Correlations between SRD, SMTF parameters, age, and speech perception in noise were studied. Better SRD in NH than CI participants was observed at all depths. SRD thresholds and SMTF slope correlated with speech perception in CI users. When adjusted for floor performance, x-intercept did not correlate with SMTF slope or speech perception. Age and x-intercept correlations were positive and significant in NH but not CI children suggesting that across-channel intensity resolution matures during school-age in NH children. No evidence for maturation of spectral resolution beyond early school-age in pre-lingually deaf implanted CI users was found in the present study.

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Effects of age and hearing mechanism on spectral resolution in normal hearing and cochlear-implanted listeners

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Dudley

Dedhia

et al. 2017

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…This difference in modulation sensitivity between infants and adults is larger than the approximately 5 dB difference in modulation sensitivity between 4-yr-olds and adults tested by Hall and Grose and similar to the large differences between infant and adult listeners reported for sound detection in noise and intensity discrimination. 29,32,[34][35][36] These data suggest that that amplitude modulation sensitivity is markedly immature at birth and gradually reaches adult levels during adolescence.…”

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Amplitude modulation detection and temporal modulation cutoff frequency in normal hearing infants

Walker

Gerhards

Werner

et al. 2019

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The goal of this study was to determine if temporal modulation cutoff frequency was mature in three-month-old infants. Normal-hearing infants and young adults were tested in a single-interval forced-choice observer-based psychoacoustic procedure. Two parameters of the temporal modulation transfer function (TMTF) were estimated to separate temporal resolution from amplitude modulation sensitivity. The modulation detection threshold (MDT) of a broadband noise amplitude modulated at 10 Hz estimated the y-intercept of the TMTF. The cutoff frequency of the TMTF, measured at a modulation depth 4 dB greater than the MDT, provided an estimate of temporal resolution. MDT was obtained in 27 of 33 infants while both MDT and cutoff frequency was obtained in 15 infants and in 16 of 16 adults. Mean MDT was approximately 10 dB poorer in infants compared to adults. In contrast, mean temporal modulation cutoff frequency did not differ significantly between age groups. These results suggest that temporal resolution is mature, on average, by three months of age in normal hearing children despite immature sensitivity to amplitude modulation. The temporal modulation cutoff frequency approach used here may be a feasible way to examine development of temporal resolution in young listeners with markedly immature sensitivity to amplitude modulation. V

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“…As d' values cannot be determined for such proportions, 1 was added to the number of both old and new stimuli and 0.5 was added to both the number of hits and of false alarms for each participant. New proportions were calculated from these adjusted values such that probabilities of hits and false alarms correlate .99 with unadjusted values (see Pliner and Steverango, 1994;Schneider et al, 1991).…”

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On auditing auditory information: the influence of mood on memory for music

Houston

Haddock

2007

Psychology of Music

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A B S T R AC T Previous research suggests that memory for music possesses a number of similarities to the more frequently studied modalities of verbal and visual memory. The present study addresses a yet uninvestigated factor involved in the memory for music: mood. Specifically, the study explored whether a moodcongruency effect is attained using major and minor keys as memory stimuli. Sixty undergraduate students were placed in a positive, negative, or neutral (i.e. baseline) mood. They were then presented with four major and four minor melodies, and, following a short delay, underwent a recognition task for the melodies. The results showed the presence of a highly significant moodcongruency effect. In a positive mood, melodies in major keys were better recognized than melodies in minor keys, whereas the reverse effect was seen for negative moods. Results are discussed in terms of how these findings relate to previous work on memory for music and linguistics. K E Y W O R D S : affect, memory, mood, music, recognitionOf all the arts, music is perhaps one of the most widely available to us. Entire shops are dedicated solely to the purchase of musical recordings; thousands of radio stations play music 24 hours a day; television shows and films incorporate music to help tell their stories; and live performances, from opera to rock concerts, take place all over the world on a daily basis. Such huge popularity of the art primarily results from the human ability to recognize different types and pieces of music, and to encode them to memory. Musical melodies and structures are not entirely specific to music; research has uncovered links between certain features of music (e.g. melody and tempo) that relate to the production of language. The importance of memory for

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Developmental perspectives on the localization and detection of auditory signals

Abstract: Responsiveness of 1-,3-, and 5-year-old children and adults to octave-band noises at .4 and 10 kHz was assessed with a go/no-go version of visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) (Moore, Thompson,

Cited by 13 publications

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Effects of age and hearing mechanism on spectral resolution in normal hearing and cochlear-implanted listeners

Effects of age and hearing mechanism on spectral resolution in normal hearing and cochlear-implanted listeners

Amplitude modulation detection and temporal modulation cutoff frequency in normal hearing infants

On auditing auditory information: the influence of mood on memory for music

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