Abstract
We describe data collected using Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART), a freely-available application for psychoacoustical testing that harnesses commercially available tablet computer technology to translate current psychophysical knowledge into clinical practice. PART tests included the detection of tones in noise with and without spectral gaps; spectral, temporal, and spectro-temporal modulation; diotic and dichotic frequency modulation; and temporal gaps inserted between brief tone pulses. Listeners also performed a speech-on-speech spatial release from masking test. Data from 150 undergraduate students were collected using both passive and active noise-attenuating headphones in a silent environment and in the presence of recorded cafeteria noise. Across these and other manipulations of equipment and threshold-estimation techniques, performance reliably approximated that reported in the literature. These data serve as validation that accessible auditory hardware can be used to test auditory function with sufficient precision to provide clinical assessments of central auditory function in individual listeners. This dataset also provides a distribution of thresholds that can be used as a normative baseline against which auditory dysfunction can be identified in future work. PART has the potential to supplement the testing currently being done in the clinic to provide a clearer picture of auditory function and health.