TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and validation of Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) measures for auditory research
AU - Gallun, Frederick J.
AU - Seitz, Aaron
AU - Eddins, David A.
AU - Molis, Michelle R.
AU - Stavropoulos, Trevor
AU - Jakien, Kasey M.
AU - Kampel, Sean D.
AU - Diedesch, Anna C.
AU - Hoover, Eric C.
AU - Bell, Karen
AU - Souza, Pamela E.
AU - Sherman, Melissa
AU - Calandruccio, Lauren
AU - Xue, Gretchen
AU - Taleb, Nardine
AU - Sebena, Rene
AU - Srinivasan, Nirmal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Acoustical Society of America.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The current state of consumer-grade electronics means that researchers, clinicians, students, and members of the general public across the globe can create high-quality auditory stimuli using tablet computers, built-in sound hardware, and calibrated consumer-grade headphones. Our laboratories have created a free application that supports this work: PART (Portable Automated Rapid Testing). PART has implemented a range of psychoacoustical tasks including: spatial release from speech-on-speech masking, binaural sensitivity, gap discrimination, temporal modulation, spectral modulation, and spectrotemporal modulation (STM). Here, data from the spatial release and STM tasks are presented. Data were collected across the globe on tablet computers using applications available for free download, built-in sound hardware, and calibrated consumer-grade headphones. Spatial release results were as good or better than those obtained with standard laboratory methods. Spectrotemporal modulation thresholds were obtained rapidly and, for younger normal hearing listeners, were also as good or better than those in the literature. For older hearing impaired listeners, rapid testing resulted in similar thresholds to those reported in the literature. Listeners at five different testing sites produced very similar STM thresholds, despite a variety of testing conditions and calibration routines. Download Spatial Release, PART, and Listen: An Auditory Training Experience for free at https://bgc.ucr.edu/games/.
AB - The current state of consumer-grade electronics means that researchers, clinicians, students, and members of the general public across the globe can create high-quality auditory stimuli using tablet computers, built-in sound hardware, and calibrated consumer-grade headphones. Our laboratories have created a free application that supports this work: PART (Portable Automated Rapid Testing). PART has implemented a range of psychoacoustical tasks including: spatial release from speech-on-speech masking, binaural sensitivity, gap discrimination, temporal modulation, spectral modulation, and spectrotemporal modulation (STM). Here, data from the spatial release and STM tasks are presented. Data were collected across the globe on tablet computers using applications available for free download, built-in sound hardware, and calibrated consumer-grade headphones. Spatial release results were as good or better than those obtained with standard laboratory methods. Spectrotemporal modulation thresholds were obtained rapidly and, for younger normal hearing listeners, were also as good or better than those in the literature. For older hearing impaired listeners, rapid testing resulted in similar thresholds to those reported in the literature. Listeners at five different testing sites produced very similar STM thresholds, despite a variety of testing conditions and calibration routines. Download Spatial Release, PART, and Listen: An Auditory Training Experience for free at https://bgc.ucr.edu/games/.
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U2 - 10.1121/2.0000878
DO - 10.1121/2.0000878
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85057603187
SN - 1939-800X
VL - 33
JO - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
JF - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
IS - 1
M1 - 050002
T2 - 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
Y2 - 7 May 2018 through 11 May 2018
ER -