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Individual differences in spectral temporal order judgment are associated with temporal fine structure processing.

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Τίτλος: Individual differences in spectral temporal order judgment are associated with temporal fine structure processing.
Συγγραφείς: Fostick L; Department of Communication Disorders, Auditory Perception Lab in the Name of Laurent Levy, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel. Electronic address: Leah.fostick@ariel.ac.il., Babkoff H; Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel., Moore BCJ; Cambridge Hearing Group, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3 EB, UK.
Πηγή: Hearing research [Hear Res] 2026 Jul; Vol. 477, pp. 109677. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 May 19.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 7900445 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1878-5891 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03785955 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Hear Res Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: Amsterdam, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press.
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Auditory Pathways*/physiology , Cues* , Judgment* , Individuality* , Time Perception* , Auditory Perception*, Humans ; Acoustic Stimulation ; Time Factors ; Male ; Female ; Young Adult ; Auditory Threshold ; Adult ; Psychoacoustics ; Pitch Perception
Περίληψη: Temporal order judgment (TOJ) for two brief tones with different frequencies is commonly used to assess auditory temporal resolution. Participants can be classified as high-, mid-, and low-level performers (HLP, MLP, LLP) based on the pattern of the results. The present study examined whether variability in the use of temporal fine structure (TFS) cues at the output of auditory filters centered between the frequencies of the two tones contributes to the individual differences. HLPs show high accuracy even when the inter-stimulus interval (ISI) is very small, MLPs show accuracy that increases with increasing ISI, and LLP show poor performance for all ISIs. Experiment 1 used a lower-frequency tone at 1 kHz with a variable upper-frequency tone. The prevalence of HLP decreased with increasing upper frequency, consistent with the reduction of neural phase locking at higher frequencies and the reduced salience of TFS cues with increasing frequency separation of the two tones. Experiment 2 used octave-spaced tones with a wide range of center frequencies. There was a progressive shift from HLP to MLP and LLP as the mean frequency increased. Experiment 3 directly manipulated TFS cue availability using narrowband noise centered between the frequencies of the two tones. This reduced the proportion of HLP and increased the proportion of MLP. These findings support the idea that differences between HLP and MLP for short ISIs reflect differences in the extent to which participants make use of TFS cues. LLP make poor use of both TFS cues and temporal sequence for this task.
(Copyright © 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Auditory encoding; Individual differences; Phase locking; Spectral temporal order judgment; Temporal fine structure
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260520 Date Completed: 20260610 Latest Revision: 20260807
Update Code: 20260808
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2026.109677
PMID: 42160920
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE
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