Frequency resolution and discrimination of constant and dynamic tones in normal and hearing-impaired listeners

Tyler, Richard S.; Wood, Elizabeth; Fernandes, Mariano A.

doi:10.1121/1.390043

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“…8 as connecting lines between the measures (no arrowheads are shown since the order of processing in the auditory system is unclear). Furthermore, frequency discrimination was correlated with speech reception in noise, consistent with previous studies (Tyler et al, 1983;Glasberg and Moore, 1989;Noordhoek et al, 2001). Also, binaural masked N 0 S p thresholds were correlated with the SRTs.…”

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Relations between perceptual measures of temporal processing, auditory-evoked brainstem responses and speech intelligibility in noise

2011

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confidence: 77%

Relations between perceptual measures of temporal processing, auditory-evoked brainstem responses and speech intelligibility in noise

2011

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“…The auditory filter bandwidths were significantly correlated with hearing thresholds at 500 Hz (p ¼ 0.029), confirming the relationship between audibility and frequency resolution found in earlier studies (e.g., Tyler et al, 1983;Strelcyk and Dau, 2009). However, the mean ERB values did neither correlate with speech reception (p ¼ 0.329), mean BILDs (p ¼ 0.239), IPD detection thresholds (p ¼ 0.066), or FMDTs (500 Hz: p ¼ 0.542, 1 kHz: p ¼ 0.128).…”

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Relating binaural pitch perception to the individual listener’s auditory profile

Santurette¹,

Dau²

2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The ability of eight normal-hearing listeners and fourteen listeners with sensorineural hearing loss to detect and identify pitch contours was measured for binaural-pitch stimuli and salience-matched monaurally detectable pitches. In an effort to determine whether impaired binaural pitch perception was linked to a specific deficit, the auditory profiles of the individual listeners were characterized using measures of loudness perception, cognitive ability, binaural processing, temporal fine structure processing, and frequency selectivity, in addition to common audiometric measures. Two of the listeners were found not to perceive binaural pitch at all, despite a clear detection of monaural pitch. While both binaural and monaural pitches were detectable by all other listeners, identification scores were significantly lower for binaural than for monaural pitch. A total absence of binaural pitch sensation coexisted with a loss of a binaural signal-detection advantage in noise, without implying reduced cognitive function. Auditory filter bandwidths did not correlate with the difference in pitch identification scores between binaural and monaural pitches. However, subjects with impaired binaural pitch perception showed deficits in temporal fine structure processing. Whether the observed deficits stemmed from peripheral or central mechanisms could not be resolved here, but the present findings may be useful for hearing loss characterization.

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“…However, in most studies the hearing-impaired subjects were older than the normal-hearing subjects, so some (but probably not all) of the effects of hearing loss may have been due to age. DLFs for hearing-impaired subjects are not correlated with measures of frequency selectivity (Tyler et al 1983;Moore and Peters 1992), confirming that DLFs depend on TFS information and not excitation-pattern information.…”

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Effects of Age and Hearing Loss on the Processing of Auditory Temporal Fine Structure

Moore

2016

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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Within the cochlea, broadband sounds like speech and music are filtered into a series of narrowband signals, each of which can be considered as a relatively slowly varying envelope (ENV) imposed on a rapidly oscillating carrier (the temporal fine structure, TFS). Information about ENV and TFS is conveyed in the timing and short-term rate of nerve spikes in the auditory nerve. There is evidence that both hearing loss and increasing age adversely affect the ability to use TFS information, but in many studies the effects of hearing loss and age have been confounded. This paper summarises evidence from studies that allow some separation of the effects of hearing loss and age. The results suggest that the monaural processing of TFS information, which is important for the perception of pitch and for segregating speech from background sounds, is adversely affected by both hearing loss and increasing age, the former being more important. The monaural processing of ENV information is hardly affected by hearing loss or by increasing age. The binaural processing of TFS information, which is important for sound localisation and the binaural masking level difference, is also adversely affected by both hearing loss and increasing age, but here the latter seems more important. The deterioration of binaural TFS processing with increasing age appears to start relatively early in life. The binaural processing of ENV information also deteriorates somewhat with increasing age. The reduced binaural processing abilities found for older/hearing-impaired listeners may partially account for the difficulties that such listeners experience in situations where the target speech and interfering sounds come from different directions in space, as is common in everyday life.

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Frequency resolution and discrimination of constant and dynamic tones in normal and hearing-impaired listeners

Cited by 71 publications

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Relations between perceptual measures of temporal processing, auditory-evoked brainstem responses and speech intelligibility in noise

Relations between perceptual measures of temporal processing, auditory-evoked brainstem responses and speech intelligibility in noise

Relating binaural pitch perception to the individual listener’s auditory profile

Effects of Age and Hearing Loss on the Processing of Auditory Temporal Fine Structure

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