Behavioral Measures of the Precision of Coding of Interaural Temporal Disparities (ITD) in Human Listeners

Abstract

Our systematic program of research showed that 1) hearing losses, even when slight and/or clinically negligible, can adversely affect binaural (two-eared) processing and 2) the observed losses of precision of ITD-coding appear to support the proposition that differences in the precision of ITD-coding are more attributable to differences in hearing level than to (correlated) differences in age. Quantitative modeling revealed that that the degradations of binaural processing accompanying slight and/or hidden loss stem principally (if not, solely) from noisy monaural neural inputs to a binaural comparator.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 16, 2019
Accession Number
AD1076746

Entities

People

  • Constantine Trahiotis
  • Leslie R. Bernstein

Organizations

  • University of Connecticut Health Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Additives (Chemicals)
  • Classification
  • Comparators
  • Compensation
  • Cross Correlation
  • Data Analysis
  • Degradation
  • Delay Lines
  • Detection
  • Discrimination
  • Elevation
  • Frequency
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Hearing Disorders
  • Hearing Loss
  • Information Science
  • Precision
  • Signal Detection
  • Situational Awareness
  • Societies
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Neuroscience
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design