Otoacoustic emission levels predict which tones listeners weight more heavily

Evidence

The present paper reports pilot data providing evidence that SOAEs and SFOAEs are also predictive of the relative decision weight listeners give to a pair of tones in a level discrimination task. In one condition the frequency of one tone was selected to be near that of an SOAE and the frequency of the other was selected to be in a frequency region for which there was no detectable SOAE. In a second condition the frequency of one tone was selected to correspond to an SFOAE maximum, the frequency of the other tone, an SFOAE minimum. In both conditions a statistically significant correlation was found between the average relative decision weight on the two tones and the difference in OAE levels. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5755

Categorization

• QUESTION: Pilot data only — worth tracking whether the SOAE/SFOAE-to-decision-weight correlation replicates with larger samples.
• SEED: Essay angle: ‘your inner ear has a fingerprint’ — how individual cochlear quirks silently shape what you hear and how you decide.