Gap detection tasks measure how the ear follows temporal changes relevant to communication

Evidence

At face value, gap detection experiments may seem fairly contrived and have no obvious application to our understanding of everyday listening. However, the ability to represent temporal information in a stimulus is clearly important for communication, and gap detection tasks provide a measurement, albeit coarse, of the ability of the auditory system to follow temporal variations. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 994

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 994