SynthesisBehavior research methods2024
Web-based psychoacoustics: Hearing screening, infrastructure, and validation.
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- Distinct Roles of Working Memory and Inhibitory Control in Speech-in-Noise Perception.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Prediction from Statistical Learning Aids Auditory Scene Analysis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Individual differences elucidate the perceptual benefits associated with robust temporal fine-structure processing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Reliable Web-Based Auditory Cognitive Testing: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Impact of reduced spectral resolution on temporal-coherence-based source segregation.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- PSYCHOACOUSTICS-WEB: A free online tool for the estimation of auditory thresholds.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Individual Differences Elucidate the Perceptual Benefits Associated with Robust Temporal Fine-Structure Processing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Comparison of Psychometric Functions Measured Using Remote Testing and Laboratory Testing.Audiology research · 2024Article
- Impact of Reduced Spectral Resolution on Temporal-Coherence-Based Source Segregation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Auditory Category Learning in Children With Dyslexia.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Cortical temporal integration can account for limits of temporal perception: investigations in the binaural system.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Remote auditory assessment using Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) and participant-owned devices.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Speech Categorization Reveals the Role of Early-Stage Temporal-Coherence Processing in Auditory Scene Analysis.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Temporal fine structure influences voicing confusions for consonant identification in multi-talker babble.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Robust and Efficient Online Auditory Psychophysics.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Anonymous web-based experiments are increasingly used in many domains of behavioral research. However, online studies of auditory perception, especially of psychoacoustic phenomena pertaining to low-level sensory processing, are challenging because of limited available control of the acoustics, and the inability to perform audiometry to confirm normal-hearing status of participants. Here, we outline our approach to mitigate these challenges and validate our procedures by comparing web-based measurements to lab-based data on a range of classic psychoacoustic tasks. Individual tasks were created using jsPsych, an open-source JavaScript front-end library. Dynamic sequences of psychoacoustic tasks were implemented using Django, an open-source library for web applications, and combined with consent pages, questionnaires, and debriefing pages. Subjects were recruited via Prolific, a subject recruitment platform for web-based studies. Guided by a meta-analysis of lab-based data, we developed and validated a screening procedure to select participants for (putative) normal-hearing status based on their responses in a suprathreshold task and a survey. Headphone use was standardized by supplementing procedures from prior literature with a binaural hearing task. Individuals meeting all criteria were re-invited to complete a range of classic psychoacoustic tasks. For the re-invited participants, absolute thresholds were in excellent agreement with lab-based data for fundamental frequency discrimination, gap detection, and sensitivity to interaural time delay and level difference. Furthermore, word identification scores, consonant confusion patterns, and co-modulation masking release effect also matched lab-based studies. Our results suggest that web-based psychoacoustics is a viable complement to lab-based research. Source code for our infrastructure is provided.
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