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ERIC Number: EJ696099
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Feb
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1092-4388
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Duration Discrimination in Listeners with Cochlear Hearing Loss: Effects of Stimulus Type and Frequency
Grose, John H.; Hall, Joseph W., III; Buss, Emily
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v47 n1 p5 Feb 2004
This study examined the effects of cochlear hearing loss on the ability to discriminate increments in the duration of a stimulus under conditions where the frequency and/or amplitude of the stimulus change dynamically. Three stimulus types were used: pure tones, frequency-modulated tones, and narrow bands of noise. The carrier/center frequency of each 250-ms stimulus either remained constant at 1035 Hz or varied randomly from presentation to presentation across the frequency range 432-2804 Hz. Two groups of listeners participated: 9 with bilateral cochlear hearing loss and 7 with normal hearing sensitivity. The results showed no differences in performance between the 2 groups. However, both groups showed poorer duration discrimination for the conditions where the carrier/center frequency changed randomly than for the conditions where the carrier/center frequency remained constant. In addition, performance was poorer for the narrowband noise stimuli than for the tonal stimuli. This pattern of results suggests that across-frequency temporal judgments are more difficult than isofrequency temporal judgments, but that cochlear hearing loss does not exacerbate this difficulty per se.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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