Validation and Evaluation of Sung Sentence Recognition Test
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Music is an ever-present stimulus in our environment and is often paired with significant life events and experiences (Gfeller et al., 2008). In addition, music listening is a more demanding perceptual task than speech perception. Like speech, music comprises rhythm, frequency, amplitude, and timbral features. However, music also requires ability to discriminate amongst multiple pitches, rhythms, and linguistic properties occurring simultaneously. The extent to which the complexity of sound impacts speech and music perception may vary across listeners. The ability to understand the lyrics in songs is a common problem for many individuals and was reported as the most desired experience by cochlear implant listeners (Gfeller, et al., 2019). No validated tests, commercially available or within the research literature, exist that evaluate this phenomenon in listeners, though many websites exist to illustrate the incidence of misheard song lyrics. The purpose of this study is to refine a test assessing lyric perception oflisteners with normal hearing and with cochlear implants (Driscoll, 2019), determine list equivalency, evaluate performance of a new group of listeners (individuals with hearing loss), and performance intensity function across the groups. The proposed project will begin in Summer 2023 and run through Spring 2024 and will evaluate effectiveness of the testing materials to identify areas of difficulty and create equivalent lists that can be used in evaluating perceptual accuracy in a variety of listeners.
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