Temporal integration in normal hearing, cochlear impairment, and impairment simulated by masking
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 84 (1), 195-203
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.396964
Abstract
To assess temporal integration in normal hearing, cochlear impairment, and impairment simulated by masking, absolute thresholds for tones were measured as a function of duration. Durations ranged from 500 ms down to 15 ms at 0.25 kHz, 8 ms at 1 kHz, and 2 ms at 4 and 14 kHz. An adaptive 21, 2AFC procedure with feedback was used. On each trial, two 500-ms observation intervals, marked by lights, were presented with an interstimulus interval of 250 ms. The monaural signal was presented in the temporal center of one observation interval. The results for five normal and six impaired listeners show: (1) normal listeners'' thresholds decrease by about 8 to 10 dB per decade of duration, as expected; (2) listeners with cochlear impairments generally show less temporal integration than normal listeners; and (3) listeners with impairments simulated using masking noise generally show the same amount of temporal integration as normal listeners tested in the quiet. The difference between real and simulated impairments indicates that the reduced temporal integration observed in impaired listeners probably is not due to splatter of energy to frequency regions where thresholds are low, but reflects reduced temporal integration per se.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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