Development of an adaptive test of musical scene analysis abilities for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.

ABSTRACT: Auditory scene analysis (ASA) is the process through which the auditory system makes sense of complex acoustic environments by organising sound mixtures into meaningful events and streams. Although music psychology has acknowledged the fundamental role of ASA in shaping music perception, no efficient test to quantify listeners' ASA abilities in realistic musical scenarios has yet been published. This study presents a new tool for testing ASA abilities in the context of music, suitable for both normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) individuals: the adaptive Musical Scene Analysis (MSA) test. The test uses a simple 'yes-no' task paradigm to determine whether the sound from a single target instrument is heard in a mixture of popular music. During the online calibration phase, 525 NH a

SUBMITTER: Hake R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11335785 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature