Family S · Synthetic · Experiment 5

TEST GAP DETECTION

How short a silence can you hear inside a noise, and how does that depend on the noise's bandwidth?

TEST GAP DETECTION · RUN

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Test methods

METHOD STAIRCASE METHOD BAYES

What a participant does

Three bursts of noise, one after another. Exactly one of them has a tiny silent gap cut into its middle; you say which. The gap shrinks while you are right and grows when you are wrong, converging on the shortest gap you can find. Eight of these runs are shuffled together, so you cannot tell which kind of noise you are on.

The headline number

Gap detection threshold

Unit: ms
Measured against: nothing — a duration needs no reference

Analysis

Estimators, uncertainty, and result interpretation are documented under Results and analysis.

Practicalities

Session: 60 min
Course context: Chapter 5