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Re: AUDITORY Digest - 5 Mar 2007 to 6 Mar 2007 (#2007-54)
List,
(hope this one gets through, an earlier version seems to have
disappeared)
In response to the query from Nikki Rikard, the Test of Basic Auditory
Capabilities (TBAC) was originally developed in 1982, but was only
described in a couple of abstracts. We hesitated to publish our
findings at the time. While the most interesting result was the low
correlations between speech recognition and measures of
spectral-temporal acuity, the TBAC speech measures were insufficient to
support any strong conclusion about there being distinct auditory
abilities for processing speech and nonspeech stimuli. Quite a bit
later, Aimee Surprenant (2001) and I extended the TBAC to include
several additional speech tests, got the same result, and did publish
it. Humes and Christopherson (1992) had also ran some reliability tests
on the TBAC and found it to be a relatively stable battery. Those
articles include enough details to reproduce the TBAC stimuli. We have
made copies for other investigators in the past, and are in the process
of generating a new version for distribution on CD.
Since we are on this topic, forgive me if I add that Kidd, Gygi and I
(2000) further extended the TBAC to include some other psychoacoustic
measures (gap detection, gap discrimination, SAM noises, ripple noise)
and environmental sounds and, using factor analyses, found speech and
environmental sound recognition to be grouped in a common factor, while
three other factors included various measures of spectral-temporal
acuity...that work is under review. Our general conclusion now is that
a great deal of the variance in familiar sound recognition (we call it
the "FSR Ability") reflects not spectral-temporal acuity, but the
ability to recognize auditory wholes on the basis of fragments...some
listeners need more fragments than others. Grossly deficient spectral or
temporal acuity, as in the case of some hearing impaired listeners or by
normals listening to low-order vocoded speech, is of course going to
reduce recognition performance. But the great majority of listeners
with normal audiograms have sufficient spectral-temporal acuity that
their recognition scores appear to be limited by their FSR skills rather
than by their differential acuity. Among other things this means that
speech is a dandy code, since a considerable range of spectral and
temporal resolving power has little impact on our ability to process it.
Chuck Watson
Surprenant, A. M. and Watson, C.S. (2001) Individual differences in the
processing of speech and nonspeech sounds by normal-hearing listeners.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 110, 2085-95.
Humes, L. E. and Christopherson, L. A. (1992) Some Psychometric
Properties of the Test of Basic Auditory Capabilities (TBAC) Journal of
Speech and Hearing Research 35 929-935.
Kidd, G. R., Watson, C. S. and Gygi, B. (2000) Individual differences
in auditory abilities among normal-hearing listeners (A) J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 108, 2641-2642
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Topics of the day:
1. 8th Annual IMRF meeting
2. USB audio
3. tests of auditory temporal processing
4. Summer School in Systematic Musicology
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 17:18:49 +0900
From: Dave Van Valkenburg <dvanv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 8th Annual IMRF meeting
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Hi All,
My apologies for any cross-postings:
A call for papers for the 8th annual IMRF meeting has been =20
temporarily extended. If you are interested (or thinking about =20
getting interested), please go to the site listed below... or feel =20
free to contact me directly.
dave van v
<<<<< Call for papers & symposia >>>>>>
IMRF 2007, Sydney, Australia.
July 4th to 8th
The International Multisensory Research Forum's 8th annual
meeting will be held in Sydney Australia in 2007.
With numbers growing year by year, the IMRF meeting has
become the major event for multisensory research.
The IMRF scientific committee is calling for abstracts to be
submitted for oral and poster presentations, as well as for
suggestions for 2 hour symposium sessions.
All 5 senses are represented at IMRF in a multi-disciplinary
forum. Many scientific approaches are represented at IMRF,
including:
=95 Electrophysiology
=95 Evoked potentials & psychophysiology
=95 Animal behavior
=95 Human psychophysics
=95 Neurophysiology
=95 Cognitive psychology
=95 Speech perception
=95 Brain imaging
=95 Computational modeling
The IMRF meeting also inlcudes a Graduate Student Symposium.
A small number of graduate students will be selected by the
scientific committee to present their work in a specially
dedicted symposium showcasing talented work from gradudate
students. Selected students will have their conference expenses
subsidized.
All intending IMRF participants should submit a 200-word abstract
at the conference web site:
http://imfr.mcmaster.ca/IMRF/2007
Key dates for IMRF 2007:
SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS including topic, abstract and confirmed
speakers are due by: February 2nd, 2007.
REGULAR ABSTRACTS are due by March 5th 2007. (DEADLINE HAS BEEN =20
EXTENDED)
EARLY REGISTRATION closes April 13th 2007.
_________________
David L. Van Valkenburg
University of Western Australia, School of Psychology
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
Phone: 011 61 08 6488 3257
Fax: 011 61 08 6488 1006
Email: dvanv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:09:53 +0000
From: majorfatal moebius <majorfatal05@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: USB audio
Digigram makes excellent USB audio cards, but are a bit expensive. You
might also consider getting a firewire card for your computer and
looking
into a Presonus Firebox sound card (around $300). It has a -0.5 dB
response
from 6Hz to 20 KHz, consistent outputs regardless of the sampling rate,
very good mic preamps...although, it should be noted that it works only
up
to 48 KHz. Otherwise, from my experience, an excellent card.
Milan Stojiljkovic
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:11:51 +1100
From: Nikki Rickard <nikki.rickard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: tests of auditory temporal processing
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Dear list
I'm hoping that someone may be able to advise me on how to obtain the
Test of Basic Auditory Capabilities, or a similar psychometrically sound
test of auditory discrimination of rapidly changing acoustic stimuli.
We are exploring temporal processing of various types of musicians as an
extension to work of Jakobson, Cuddy & Kilgour (2003) and others. (The
information provided is almost sufficient to reproduce the auditory
stimuli, although inter-onset intervals and # of trials per subtest is
not given; even so, I assume the test would be copyrighted, and I would
prefer to use the original stimuli if available.) The citation pointed
to by most who use this test is Watson et al (1982), which is only an
abstract.
any advice would be appreciated
Nikki
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:38:35 +0100
From: Micheline Lesaffre <Micheline.Lesaffre@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Summer School in Systematic Musicology
PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AMONG YOUR COLLEAGUES AND
STUDENTS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.
Hello Everyone,
Following on the success of the first international summer school in
systematic musicology (ISSSM 2006), the summer school will be held for
the second time at IPEM, the research centre of the Department of
Musicology of Ghent University (Belgium). This year courses will focus
on current topics in the research field such as embodied music
cognition, music information retrieval and music and interactive media.
The School is aimed at graduate students working on their Master or PhD
thesis, but it is open to any person carrying out research in this
field.
ISSSM is a Socrates IP (Intensive Programme) supported by the European
Commission and involving several European universities. The project
coordination and organization is in the hands of Prof. Dr. Marc Leman,
(Professor in Systematic Musicology at IPEM <http://www.ipem.ugent.be/>,
Dept. of Musicology, Ghent University).
ISSSM2007: August 24-September 2, 2007
Application deadline: April 1st 2007
Information: http://www.ipem.ugent.be/ISSSM2007/
Contact: Liesbeth.DeVoogdt@xxxxxxxx
Kind regards,
Micheline Lesaffre
IPEM, Ghent University
+32 9 2644121
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