Differences in duration discrimination of filled and empty auditory intervals as a function of base duration

Thomas H. Rammsayer

doi:10.3758/app.72.6.1591

Differences in duration discrimination of filled and empty auditory intervals as a function of base duration

Attention Perception & Psychophysics ◽

10.3758/app.72.6.1591 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 72 (6) ◽

pp. 1591-1600 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Thomas H. Rammsayer

Keyword(s):

Duration Discrimination ◽

Base Duration

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Age-Related Decline in Emotional Prosody Discrimination

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000241 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 215-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Rachel L. C. Mitchell ◽

Rachel A. Kingston

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Auditory Perception ◽

Duration Discrimination ◽

Pitch Perception ◽

Sensory Level ◽

Emotional Prosody ◽

Processing Stage ◽

Acoustic Characteristics ◽

Age Related ◽

Level Of Processing

It is now accepted that older adults have difficulty recognizing prosodic emotion cues, but it is not clear at what processing stage this ability breaks down. We manipulated the acoustic characteristics of tones in pitch, amplitude, and duration discrimination tasks to assess whether impaired basic auditory perception coexisted with our previously demonstrated age-related prosodic emotion perception impairment. It was found that pitch perception was particularly impaired in older adults, and that it displayed the strongest correlation with prosodic emotion discrimination. We conclude that an important cause of age-related impairment in prosodic emotion comprehension exists at the fundamental sensory level of processing.

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Developmental Patterns of Duration Discrimination

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.3604.842 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 842-849 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Jill L. Elfenbein ◽

Arnold M. Small ◽

Julia M. Davis

Keyword(s):

Standard Stimulus ◽

Discrimination Performance ◽

Noise Burst ◽

Duration Discrimination ◽

Broadband Noise ◽

Developmental Patterns ◽

Age Related ◽

Perceptual Abilities

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the auditory perceptual abilities of children are characterized by an age-related improvement in duration discrimination. Forty children, ages 4 to 10 years, and 10 adults served as subjects. Difference limens were obtained using a 350-msec broadband noise burst as the standard stimulus in a three-interval forcedchoice paradigm. Data were characterized by significant differences between the performances of the 4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds and those of the adults. Acquisition of adult-like discrimination performance was demonstrated between the ages of 8 and 10 years.

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Break Expectancy in Duration Discrimination.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance ◽

10.1037/0096-1523.29.4.823 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 823-831 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Sébastien Tremblay ◽

Claudette Fortin

Keyword(s):

Duration Discrimination

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Age Effects on Measures of Auditory Duration Discrimination

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.3703.662 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 662-670 ◽

Cited By ~ 106

Author(s):

Peter J. Fitzgibbons ◽

Sandra Gordon-Salant

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Stimulus Frequency ◽

The Elderly ◽

Duration Discrimination ◽

Elderly Subjects ◽

Hearing Sensitivity ◽

Choice Procedure ◽

Forced Choice Procedure ◽

Tonal Stimuli ◽

Young And Elderly Subjects

This study examined auditory temporal sensitivity in young adult and elderly listeners using psychophysical tasks that measured duration discrimination. Listeners in the experiments were divided into groups of young and elderly subjects with normal hearing sensitivity and with mild-to-moderate sloping sensorineural hearing loss. Temporal thresholds in all tasks were measured with an adaptive forced-choice procedure using tonal stimuli centered at 500 Hz and 4000 Hz. Difference limens for duration were measured for tone bursts (250 msec reference duration) and for silent intervals between tone bursts (250 msec and 6.4 msec reference durations). Results showed that the elderly listeners exhibited diminished duration discrimination for both tones and silent intervals when the reference duration was 250 msec. Hearing loss did not affect these results. Discrimination of the brief temporal gap (6.4 msec) was influenced by age and hearing loss, but these effects were not consistent across all listeners. Effects of stimulus frequency were not evident for most of the duration discrimination conditions.

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