Auditory temporal integration: What is being accumulated?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 28-32

  Viemeister, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 0030306224     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.ep10772699     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. 1. Examples are available on the compact disc Auditory Demonstrations (Phillips 1126-061), which is available through the Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797 (http://asa.aip.org).
2. 2. For a recent review, see N. Viemeister and C. Plack, Time analysis, in Human Psychophysics, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 3, W. Yost, A. Popper, and R. Fay, Eds. (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992).
3. 3. W.A. Munson, The growth of auditory sensation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 19, 584-591 (1947); R. Plomp and M.A. Boumann, Relation between hearing thresholds and duration for tone pulses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 31, 2178-2187 (1959); J.J. Zwislocki, Theory of temporal auditory summation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 32, 1046-1060 (1960); L.A. Jeffress, Stimulus-oriented approach to detection re-examined, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 41, 480-488 (1967).
4. 3. W.A. Munson, The growth of auditory sensation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 19, 584-591 (1947); R. Plomp and M.A. Boumann, Relation between hearing thresholds and duration for tone pulses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 31, 2178-2187 (1959); J.J. Zwislocki, Theory of temporal auditory summation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 32, 1046-1060 (1960); L.A. Jeffress, Stimulus-oriented approach to detection re-examined, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 41, 480-488 (1967).
5. 3. W.A. Munson, The growth of auditory sensation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 19, 584-591 (1947); R. Plomp and M.A. Boumann, Relation between hearing thresholds and duration for tone pulses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 31, 2178-2187 (1959); J.J. Zwislocki, Theory of temporal auditory summation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 32, 1046-1060 (1960); L.A. Jeffress, Stimulus-oriented approach to detection re-examined, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 41, 480-488 (1967).
6. 3. W.A. Munson, The growth of auditory sensation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 19, 584-591 (1947); R. Plomp and M.A. Boumann, Relation between hearing thresholds and duration for tone pulses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 31, 2178-2187 (1959); J.J. Zwislocki, Theory of temporal auditory summation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 32, 1046-1060 (1960); L.A. Jeffress, Stimulus-oriented approach to detection re-examined, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 41, 480-488 (1967).
7. 4. E. de Boer, Auditory time constants: A paradox? and D.M. Green, Temporal factors in psychoacoustics, in Time Resolution in Auditory Systems, A. Michelson, Ed. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1975).
8. -1 = 0.37 of its value just before termination of the input.
9. 6. D.M. Green and J.A. Swets, Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics (Wiley, New York, 1966).
10. 7. N.F. Viemeister and G.H. Wakefield, Temporal integration and multiple looks, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 858-865 (1991).
11. 8. Zwislocki, note 3; J.J. Zwislocki, R.P. Hellman, and R.T. Verillo, Threshold of audibility for short pulses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 34, 1648-1652 (1962).
12. 8. Zwislocki, note 3; J.J. Zwislocki, R.P. Hellman, and R.T. Verillo, Threshold of audibility for short pulses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 34, 1648-1652 (1962).
13. 9. Even for long separations, the threshold for two pulses should be lower than that for a single pulse because there are twice as many useful looks. The SDT prediction is that the threshold should be 1.5 dB lower (vs. 1.6 dB, obtained) for independent looks.
14. 10. A psychometric function is the relation between some measure of performance, such as percentage correct or d′, and stimulus strength. In audition, the equation d′ = k Iα, where I is stimulus intensity and k and α are fitting constants, provides a good description of psychometric functions for detection. These functions are typically plotted on logarithmic coordinates, hence α is the slope, or steepness, of the psychometric function. The report of steeper psychometric functions with cochlear loss is R.P. Carlyon, S. Buus, and M. Florentine, Temporal integration of trains of tone pulses by normal and by cochlearly impaired listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87, 260-268 (1990).
15. 11. G.S. Donaldson, N.F. Viemeister, D.A. Nelson, and E. Javel, Temporal integration functions and psychometric functions for detection in users of the Nucleus 22-electrode cochlear implant, in Abstracts of the 18th Midwinter Meeting (Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Des Moines, IA, 1995).