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Peer reviewedAllen, Prudence; Wightman, Frederic – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
A 2-alternative forced-choice task was used to measure the ability of 18 children (ages 3 to 5) to detect varying levels of sinusoids in noise. Results showed that, on average, the children's thresholds were higher and the slopes of their psychometric functions were shallower than those of adults, though between-subjects variability was large.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Hearing (Physiology)
