Measuring spectral and temporal resolution simultaneously: a comparison between two tests
| Autor: | Wouter A. Dreschler, Thamar E. M. van Esch |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Amsterdam Public Health, Ear, Nose and Throat |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
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Linguistics and Language Clinical tests medicine.medical_specialty business.product_category Speech perception Sound Spectrography Time Factors Adolescent Computer science Speech recognition Hearing Loss Sensorineural Loudness Perception Audiology Language and Linguistics Speech and Hearing Tone (musical instrument) Young Adult medicine otorhinolaryngologic diseases Humans Headphones Aged Speech Intelligibility Reproducibility of Results Auditory Threshold Middle Aged Clinical Practice Noise Acoustic Stimulation Temporal resolution Case-Control Studies Speech Perception Audiometry Pure-Tone Hearing impaired business Audiometry Speech Comprehension Perceptual Masking psychological phenomena and processes Psychoacoustics |
| Zdroj: | International journal of audiology, 50(7), 477-490. Taylor and Francis Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1708-8186 1499-2027 |
| Popis: | Spectral- and temporal-resolution tests are seldom used in clinical practice despite their proven relevance for patients' speech understanding in noise and expected importance for hearing-aid fitting. The aim here was to investigate and compare two clinically applicable tests ('tone test' and 'sweep test') that measure both spectral and temporal resolution simultaneously. Experiments were conducted monaurally via headphones. After examining test-retest reliabilities and learning effects we compared results from tone and sweep tests to results from conventional spectral and temporal-resolution tests and to speech perception in noise scores. A group of five normal-hearing listeners (aged 18-42 years, median 19) and 15 (sensorineurally) hearing-impaired listeners (aged 20-68 years, median 56). It was found that the tone test corresponded much better to the conventional methods than the sweep test. Relating spectral and temporal-resolution results to speech perception in noise scores showed that the tone test seems to be slightly more relevant for speech perception than the sweep test. It can be concluded that the tone test (after modifications we suggest, based on our findings) is a fast and reliable test that is suitable for measuring spectral and temporal resolution in a clinical setting |
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