Determination of the Feasibility of Using Pupillary Responses as a Measurement of Auditory Perception.

Abstract

An experiment was performed to measure the pupillary response to a series of pure tone audio stimuli presented at the threshold level of hearing. The total number of subjects tested was seven (1 female, 6 males). Each was placed in an audiometric anechoic chamber and subjected to pure tones at five frequency levels within the normal speech range. Intensity levels were just below, in the vicinity of, and above the subject's hearing threshold while the pupil activity was being continuously monitored and recorded by a Space Sciences T.V. Pupillometer. The result was observation of no detectable pupil response due to threshold auditory stimulation in any subject for all the frequencies tested. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA020504

Entities

People

  • John F. Millican Jr

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Absorption
  • Acoustic Stimulation
  • Anechoic Chambers
  • Auditory Perception
  • Chambers
  • Frequency
  • Intensity
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Perception
  • Space Sciences

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Space