Auditory frequency discrimination in infancy.
Developmental PsychologyPublished 1 January 1982
Lynne Werner Olsho, et al
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Abstract
The ability of 5-8-month-old infants and of young adults to detect changes inthe frequency of pure tones was investigated. A head turn for visual reinforcementtechnique was used to obtain difference thresholds for 14 infants and 5 adultsat 1000, 2000, and 3000 Hz. With signals presented at 70 dB above adultdetection thresholds, infants reliably detected frequency changes on the orderof 2%, whereas adults could detect changes of about 1%. These data not onlyconfirm the findings of previous, studies that infants can distinguish differentfrequencies but indicate that infants can make relatively fine discriminations.
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