Psychoacoustic testing utility

[Ray Goldsworthy <raygold@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Fatima,

I have made a psychoacoustic testing tool available at:

http://www.sens.com/percept/

I
use the tool specifically for training and tracking performance of
cochlear implant users, hence the emphasis of the download site. But
all of the activities included are just as useful for normal hearing
listeners, except for the one that uses piano notes as it tends to be
too easy for the normals. Included activities are: forward and backward
masking, tone in noise detection, gap detection, various frequency
difference limens tests, vowel perception in noise, and some binaural
activities. 

You can also access the guts of the utility to design more
elaborate tests. In fact, if you have the appropriate hardware and
permissions, you can use the utility to design and implement novel
psychoelectric and sound processing design experiments with cochlear
implantees. Or perhaps more useful for instruction, you can visually
analyze and create cochlear implant acoustic simulations from all of
the listening activities.

In the current form, since I am interested in tracking data, the
utility saves information (excluding names of the people taking the
activities) back to Sensimetrics. Please let me know if you have any
trouble installing and running the tests, or if you have any questions.

cheers, 

Ray Goldsworthy
Sensimetrics Corporation