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Age-related differences in discrimination of an interval separating onsets of successive tone bursts as a function of interval duration
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The study measured listener sensitivity to increments in the inter-onset interval (IOI) separating pairs of successive 20-ms 4000-Hz tone pulses. A silent interval between the tone pulses was adjusted across conditions to create reference tonal IOI values of 25–600ms. For each condition, a duration DL for increments of the tonal IOI was measured in listeners comprised of young normal-hearing adults and two groups of older adults with and without high-frequency hearing loss. Discrimination performance of all listeners was poorest for the shorter reference IOIs, and improved to stable levels for longer reference intervals exceeding about 200ms. Temporal sensitivity of the young listeners was significantly better than that of the elderly listeners in each condition, with the largest age-related differences observed for the shortest reference interval. Age-related differences were also observed for duration DLs measured using single 4000-Hz tone bursts set to three reference durations in the range 50–200ms. The tone DLs of all listeners were smaller than the corresponding tone-pair IOI DLs, particularly for the shorter reference stimulus durations. There were no significant performance differences observed between the older listeners with and without hearing loss for either discrimination task.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fitzgibbons, P. J., Gordon-Salant, S., & Barrett, J.
- Affiliations
- Gallaudet University (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- Published
- 2007-07-01
- Volume
- 122
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 458-466
- ISSN
- 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8524
- OpenAlex
- W2063139062
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R37-AG09191, R37AG009191, R01AG009191)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- temporal resolution, age differences, older adults, high-frequency hearing loss, tone bursts, interval length, auditory temporal processing
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Aging, Audiometry, Pure-Tone, Auditory Perception, Auditory Threshold, Cues, Hearing Loss, High-Frequency, Humans, Pitch Discrimination, Psychoacoustics, Speech Perception, Time Perception, Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous
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