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  • Title: Temporal integration, frequency resolution, and off-frequency listening in normal-hearing and cochlear-impaired listeners.
    Author: Hall JW, Fernandes MA.
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am; 1983 Oct; 74(4):1172-7. PubMed ID: 6643838.
    Abstract:
    Temporal integration for a 1000-Hz signal was determined for normal-hearing and cochlear hearing-impaired listeners in quiet and in masking noise of variable bandwidth. Critical ratio and 3-dB critical band measures of frequency resolution were derived from the masking data. Temporal integration for the normal-hearing listeners was markedly reduced in narrow-band noise, when contrasted with temporal integration in quiet or in wideband noise. The effect of noise bandwidth on temporal integration was smaller for the hearing-impaired group. Hearing-impaired subjects showed both reduced temporal integration and reduced frequency resolution for the 200-ms signal. However, a direct relation between temporal integration and frequency resolution was not indicated. Frequency resolution for the normal-hearing listeners did not differ from that of the hearing-impaired listeners for the 20-ms signal. It was suggested that some of the frequency resolution and temporal integration differences between normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners could be accounted for by off-frequency listening.
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