Abstract
The study measured listener sensitivity to increments of a target inter-onset interval (IOI) embedded within isochronous tone sequences that featured a single accented tonal component. The sequences consisted of six 1000-Hz tone bursts separated by silent intervals to establish equal tonal IOIs of 200 ms within the sequence. Tone burst durations within the sequences were 50 ms, except one tone had a longer duration of 100 ms to produce a perception of accent. Duration DLs in ms for increments of a single sequence IOI were measured adaptively by adjusting the duration of the silent interval between two tones. Sequence position of the target IOI differed across conditions. Listeners included young normal-hearing adults and older adults with and without hearing loss. Discrimination performance of the two older listener groups was equivalent and significantly poorer than that of the younger listeners in each discrimination condition. The age-related discrimination deficits were independent of sequence locations of both the target interval and the accented tonal component. Comparative DLs collected for target intervals in unaccented tone sequences with equal tone durations revealed that the detrimental effects of accent on temporal discrimination were primarily restricted to the older listeners.
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