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Publication Date: 2019-Jun
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A Comparison of Behavioral Methods for Indexing the Auditory Processing of Temporal Fine Structure Cues
Hoover, Eric C.; Kinney, Brianna N.; Bell, Karen L.; Gallun, Frederick J.; Eddins, David A.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v62 n6 p2018-2034 Jun 2019
Purpose: Growing evidence supports the inclusion of perceptual tests that quantify the processing of temporal fine structure (TFS) in clinical hearing assessment. Many tasks have been used to evaluate TFS in the laboratory that vary greatly in the stimuli used and whether the judgments require monaural or binaural comparisons of TFS. The purpose of this study was to compare laboratory measures of TFS for inclusion in a battery of suprathreshold auditory tests. A subset of available TFS tasks were selected on the basis of potential clinical utility and were evaluated using metrics that focus on characteristics important for clinical use. Method: TFS measures were implemented in replication of studies that demonstrated clinical utility. Monaural, diotic, and dichotic measures were evaluated in 11 young listeners with normal hearing. Measures included frequency modulation (FM) tasks, harmonic frequency shift detection, interaural phase difference (TFS-low frequency), interaural time difference (ITD), monaural gap duration discrimination, and tone detection in noise with and without a difference in interaural phase (N[subscript 0]S[subscript 0], N[subscript 0]S[subscript Pi]). Data were compared with published results and evaluated with metrics of consistency and efficiency. Results: Thresholds obtained were consistent with published data. There was no evidence of predictive relationships among the measures consistent with a homogenous group. The most stable tasks across repeated testing were TFS-low frequency, diotic and dichotic FM, and N[subscript 0]S[subscript Pi]. Monaural and diotic FM had the lowest normalized variance and were the most efficient accounting for differences in total test duration, followed by ITD. Conclusions: Despite a long stimulus duration, FM tasks dominated comparisons of consistency and efficiency. Small differences separated the dichotic tasks FM, ITD, and N[subscript 0]S[subscript Pi]. Future comparisons following procedural optimization of the tasks will evaluate clinical efficiency in populations with impairment.
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cues, Auditory Tests, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Hearing (Physiology), Auditory Discrimination, Acoustics, Correlation, Task Analysis, Efficiency
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