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No Access Submitted: 01 October 2005 Accepted: 27 January 2006 Published Online: 28 March 2006

  • 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, 1946 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2178700
Andrew Stuartc), Gregg D. Givens, Letitia J. Walkerd), and Saravanan Elangovane)
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  • Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353

  • a)This work was presented in part at the 2004 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 20 November 2004.

    c)Electronic mail: [email protected]

    d)Currently affiliated with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.

    e)Currently affiliated with the Department of Communicative Disorders, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.

    • This work was presented in part at the 2004 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 20 November 2004.

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  • Andrew Stuart
  • Gregg D. Givens
  • Letitia J. Walker
  • Saravanan Elangovan
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 −10dB. Sixteen children 4to5years 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.

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