Web-based psychoacoustics: Hearing screening, infrastructure, and validation

Authors: BA Mok, V Viswanathan, A Borjigin, R Singh

Published: 2024

Publication: Behavior Research ..., 2024 - Springer

The study demonstrates that web-based psychoacoustic experiments can produce results comparable to lab-based studies by addressing challenges like hearing screening and headphone standardization.

Methods: Web-based tests using jsPsych and Django for task implementation, Prolific for participant recruitment, hearing screening using a suprathreshold task and survey, and validation against lab-based data.

Key Findings: Classic psychoacoustic phenomena such as fundamental frequency discrimination, gap detection, interaural time delay and level difference sensitivity, word identification, consonant confusion patterns, and co-modulation masking release effect.

Limitations: Lack of precise acoustic control in web environments and reliance on self-reporting and screening for participant hearing status.

Institution: Purdue University, University of Pittsburgh

Research Area: Psychoacoustics, Hearing Screening, Behavioral Research Methods

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Citations: 28