The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase) procedure in speech-in-noise testing : standard error of measurement and fluctuations in the track
dc.contributor.author | Smits, Cas | |
dc.contributor.author | Festen, Joost M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Swanepoel, De Wet | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, David R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dillon, Harvey | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-21T11:08:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-21T11:08:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10-25 | |
dc.description.abstract | The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase or up-down) procedure is often used to estimate the speech recognition threshold (SRT) in speech-in-noise testing. This article provides a brief historical overview of the one-up one-down procedure in psychophysics, discussing the groundbreaking early work that is still relevant to clinical audiology and scientific research. Next, this article focuses on two aspects of the one-up one-down adaptive procedure: first, the standard error of measurement (SEM) and, second, the fluctuations in the track [i.e., the standard deviation of the signal-to-noise ratios of the stimuli within the track (SDtrack)]. Simulations of ideal and non-ideal listeners and experimental data are used to determine and evaluate different relationships between the parameters slope of the speech recognition function, SRT, SEM, and SDtrack. Hearing loss and non-ideal behavior (inattentiveness, fatigue, and giving up when the task becomes too difficult) slightly increase the average value of SDtrack. SDtrack, however, poorly discriminates between reliable and unreliable SRT estimates. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | am2023 | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://asa.scitation.org/journal/jas | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Smits, C. Festen, J.M., Swanepoel, D.W. et al. 2022, 'The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase) procedure in speech-in-noise testing : standard error of measurement and fluctuations in the track', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 152, no. 4, pp. 2357-2368, doi : 10.1121/10.0014898. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-4966 | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1121/10.0014898 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91996 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Acoustical Society of America | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2022 Author(s). licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. | en_US |
dc.subject | Speech-in-noise testing | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychophysics | en_US |
dc.subject | Speech recognition threshold (SRT) | en_US |
dc.subject | Speech-in-noise (SIN) | en_US |
dc.subject | Standard error of measurement (SEM) | en_US |
dc.title | The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase) procedure in speech-in-noise testing : standard error of measurement and fluctuations in the track | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |