McFadden Dennis, Pasanen Edward G, Kidd Gary R, Gygi Brian
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 2;15:1435529. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1435529. eCollection 2024.
The Test of Basic Auditory Capabilities (TBAC) consists of 19 discrimination and identification tasks selected to study individual differences in audition. In one TBAC study, performance was measured for 340 normal-hearing subjects, but no investigation into possible sex differences was undertaken. That dataset now has been re-analyzed by sex. An effect size for sex difference was calculated for each subtest, and a resampling technique was used to estimate an implied significance for each of those effect sizes. Because almost all the differences observed were small, only the basic outcomes are described here, with more detail provided in Supplementary material. Peripheral physiological measures such as otoacoustic emissions exhibit larger auditory sex differences than do auditory behavioral measures, revealing that those peripheral physiological differences do not propagate simply up the auditory chain.
基本听觉能力测试（TBAC）由19项辨别和识别任务组成，这些任务旨在研究听觉方面的个体差异。在一项TBAC研究中，对340名听力正常的受试者进行了测试，但未对可能存在的性别差异进行调查。现在，该数据集已按性别重新分析。计算了每个子测试的性别差异效应大小，并使用重采样技术估计这些效应大小各自的隐含显著性。由于观察到的几乎所有差异都很小，因此这里仅描述基本结果，补充材料中提供了更多详细信息。与听觉行为测量相比，耳声发射等外周生理测量显示出更大的听觉性别差异，这表明这些外周生理差异不会简单地沿听觉传导链向上传播。
