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Title: Individual Differences in Auditory Abilities: The Expanded TBAC dataset Open Access Deposited

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Abstract
  • Performance on 19 auditory discrimination and identification tasks was measured for 340 listeners with normal hearing. Test stimuli included single tones, sequences of tones, amplitude-modulated and rippled noise, temporal gaps, speech, and environmental sounds. Principal components analysis and structural equation modeling of the data support the existence of a general auditory ability and four specific auditory abilities. The specific abilities are (1) loudness and duration (overall energy) discrimination; (2) sensitivity to temporal envelope variation; (3) identification of highly familiar sounds (speech and nonspeech); and (4) discrimination of unfamiliar simple and complex spectral and temporal patterns. Examination of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for a large subset of the population revealed little or no association between general or specific auditory abilities and general intellectual ability. The findings provide a basis for research to further specify the nature of the auditory abilities. Of particular interest are results suggestive of a familiar sound recognition (FSR) ability, apparently specialized for sound recognition on the basis of limited or distorted information. This FSR ability is independent of normal variation in both spectral-temporal acuity and of general intellectual ability.
Methodology
  • The methods used to collect and process the data are described in Kidd, G. R., Watson, C. S., & Gygi, B. (2007). Individual differences in auditory abilities. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America, 122(1), 418-435.
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  • The data show performance on 19 tests of auditory abilities, with 340 subjects. The data include: 1. Percent correct for each of the 19 TBAC tests used in the 2007 study 2. Arcsine transformed values of the PC scores (names ending in “AS”) 3. Percentile values for the Arcsine-transformed scores (names ending in “ASp”) 4. Latent variable scores for four independent auditory factors, plus a general auditory ability factor, as described in KWG 2007. Sex and race data are also included. For a subset of subjects, SAT scores, GPA, and an IQ estimate (based on SAT scores) is also provided.
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  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Date coverage
  • 1998-04-01 to 2007-05-01
Citations to related material
  • Kidd, G. R., Watson, C. S., & Gygi, B. (2007). Individual differences in auditory abilities. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America, 122(1), 418-435.
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  • 01/22/2023
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  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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To Cite this Work:
Gary R. Kidd, C. Individual Differences in Auditory Abilities: The Expanded TBAC dataset [Data set]. Indiana University - DataCORE.

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