Clinical audiogram testing standardizes stimulus durations to exploit temporal integration

Evidence

Recall that temporal integration is the ability to take advantage of increases in stimulus duration to improve perception. Not surprisingly, temporal integration is also impacted by SNHL. Hall and Fernandes (1983) and Carlyon, Buus, and Florentine (1990) measured temporal integration in listeners with normal hearing and with SNHL and found that the benefit afforded by increasing the duration of the stimulus was about 1/2 or less for listeners with SNHL. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1112 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Detecting changes in auditory textures depends mainly on integration time available; Hearing-impaired listeners gain half or less benefit from longer stimulus durations — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1112; Early clinical hearing tests measured duration and distance, not sound level (+4 more)

Related

• Hearing-impaired listeners gain half or less benefit from longer stimulus durations (similarity 0.86)
• Sensorineural hearing loss reduces temporal integration benefit by half or more (similarity 0.86)
• Faster modulation triggers ear’s temporal integration while slower modulation engages short-term memory (similarity 0.86)
• Similar critical duration does not imply normal temporal integration in hearing loss (similarity 0.84)
• Similar critical durations do not imply normal temporal integration (similarity 0.84)
• Temporal integration may sample informative snapshots rather than integrating all energy (similarity 0.82)
• Temporal integration models divide on time constant assumptions of hundreds versus single-digit milliseconds. (similarity 0.80)
• Noise-impaired listeners show reduced temporal integration, only 4 dB per decade (similarity 0.80)
• Interaural coherence measures similarity of ear canal signals (similarity 0.80)
• Interaural correlation-change detection is a viable temporal processing measure (similarity 0.80)
• Clinical audiology’s testing tools originated from psychoacoustic research (similarity 0.80)
• Forward temporal structure is essential to auditory scene analysis. (similarity 0.79)
• Audibility thresholds rise about 10 dB per tenfold sound duration reduction (similarity 0.79)
• Hearing loss extends internal masker persistence and shrinks duration benefits (similarity 0.79)
• The ear detects binaural delays finer than individual neuron timing supports (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Hearing integrates sound intensity over a fixed 200 ms window #expands (0.85)
• Hearing-impaired listeners gain half or less benefit from longer stimulus durations #corroborates (0.78) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1112
• Early clinical hearing tests measured duration and distance, not sound level #complicates (0.75)
• Interaural correlation-change detection is a viable temporal processing measure #expands (0.74) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1240
• Cochlear hearing loss raises interaural time discrimination thresholds independent of age #contradicts (0.72) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 817