Title
Auditory temporal resolution in normal-hearing preschool children revealed by word recognition in continuous and interrupted noise (L)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine temporal resolution in normal-hearing preschool children. Word recognition was evaluated in quiet and in spectrally identical continuous and interrupted noise at signal-to-noise ratios (S/Ns) of 10, 0, and -10 dB. Sixteen children 4 to 5 years of age and eight adults participated. Performance decreased with decreasing S/N. At poorer S/Ns, participants demonstrated superior performance or a release from masking in the interrupted noise. Adults performed better than children, yet the release from masking was equivalent. Collectively these findings are consistent with the notion that preschool children suffer from poorer processing efficiency rather than temporal resolution per se.
Department(s)
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2178700
Publication Date
4-1-2006
Recommended Citation
Stuart, Andrew, Gregg D. Givens, Letitia J. Walker, and Saravanan Elangovan. "Auditory temporal resolution in normal-hearing preschool children revealed by word recognition in continuous and interrupted noise." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119, no. 4 (2006): 1946-1949.
Journal Title
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
