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81. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie e. V.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie e. V.

12.05. - 16.05.2010, Wiesbaden

Development of a test to measure timbre discrimination with CI users

Meeting Abstract

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  • corresponding author presenting/speaker Torsten Rahne - University Hospital Halle (Saale), ENT, Halle (Saale), Germany
  • Christine Rasinski - University Hospital Halle (Saale), ENT, Halle (Saale), Germany
  • Kerstin Neumann - University Hospital Halle (Saale), ENT, Halle (Saale), Germany

German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. 81st Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. Wiesbaden, 12.-16.05.2010. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2010. Doc10hno061

doi: 10.3205/10hno061, urn:nbn:de:0183-10hno0617

Veröffentlicht: 6. Juli 2010

© 2010 Rahne et al.
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Gliederung

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The identification and discrimination of timbre are essential features of music perception. As timbre differences appear as multidimensional cues, the spectral shape, the spectral fluctuation, and the rise time are the most dominating parameters of timbre in normal-hearing listeners.

We developed a psychoacoustical test to determine the timbre discrimination abilities using only the spectral difference as a cue. Therefore, a synthetically generated tone continuum was used in an adaptive alternative forced choice paradigm. The spectral difference was modified by cross-fading the tones adaptively, depending on the listeners’ response which allows very precise determinations of the just noticeable difference (JND).

We measured the JND for the spectral difference with eighteen normal-hearing listeners. The results confirm the applicability of the test to measure timbre discrimination with the spectral difference as solely cue. Further, the portability of the test to further dimensions of timbre is discussed.