Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Influence of the Psychophysical Assessment Paradigm on Pitch Discrimination for Adults (and a Pilot Sample of Children)
Abstract
Pitch discrimination ability has been of research interest due to its potential relationship to language and literacy. However, assessment protocols for pitch discrimination have varied widely. Prior studies with both children and adults have produced conflicting performance findings across different pitch discrimination research paradigms, though they have consistently shown that discrimination accuracy is based on the psychophysical assessment method applied. In the present study, we examined pitch discrimination performance among convenience samples of 19 adult women and ten female children across six different adaptive psychophysical measurement conditions. We found pitch discrimination performance in both groups to be impacted by the measurement paradigm such that, while adults exhibited significantly better discrimination thresholds than did children, the pattern of performance across the six conditions was similar for both the adults and the children.
Publication Date
2021
Recommended Citation
Flagge, Ashley G.; Puranen, Lucile; and Mulekar, Madhuri S., "The Influence of the Psychophysical Assessment Paradigm on Pitch Discrimination for Adults (and a Pilot Sample of Children)" (2021). Ashley Flagge Publications. 7.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vb_lab-flagge-pubs/7
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Comments
This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: Flagge, A.G., Puranen, L., & Mulekar, M.S. (2021). The Influence of Psychophysical Assessment Paradigm on Pitch Discrimination for Adults (and a Pilot Sample of Children). Perceptual and Motor Skills, 128(6). doi: 10.111177/00315125211044063. This article may not be used commercially or be enhanced, enriched, or transformed in any way without permission from the authors and publishers.