The Effect of Auditory Dimensional Preference on the Auditory Discrimination Performance of Children. Institute Report No. 105 [electronic resource] / Michael L. Hanes.
Two studies investigating auditory information processing abilities of children are reported in this document. The first study analyzed the preferred specific acoustical dimension in an auditory discrimination task of preschool and sixth grade children from low and middle socioeconomic groups. Resul...
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| Summary: | Two studies investigating auditory information processing abilities of children are reported in this document. The first study analyzed the preferred specific acoustical dimension in an auditory discrimination task of preschool and sixth grade children from low and middle socioeconomic groups. Results indicated that children at both age levels do exhibit an auditory dimensional preference in a three-choice pure-tone discrimination task but that neither socioeconomic status nor age has a significant effect on dimensional preference. The second study investigated the relationship between pure-tone discrimination, as well as auditory dimensional preferences in discrimination, and linguistic discrimination across a narrow age range. Twenty-four preschool children, twelve four year olds and twelve five year olds, served as subjects. The results indicate that while auditory discrimination performance did not significantly improve with age, linguistic discrimination performance did. Together the results of these studies suggest that while auditory processing abilities do not differ between samples, linguistic discrimination performance may vary due to the increased number of structural units accessible to each memory component for the analysis-by-synthesis process. (Author/TO) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED076953. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Assn. (New Orleans, Louisiana, February 25-March 1, 1973). Educational level discussed: Grade 6. |
| Physical Description: | 18 p. |