The link between lifetime noise exposure and temporal processing abilities was
investigated for 45 normal-hearing participants, recruited from a population of undergraduate students, aged 18 to 23 years. A self-report instrument was employed to assess the
amount of neuropathic noise (here defined as sounds with levels exceeding approximately
80 dBA) each participant had been exposed to and sensitivity to temporal-fine-structure
and temporal-envelope information was determined using frequency discrimination and
envelope irregularity detection tasks, respectively. Despite sizable individual variability in
all measures, correlations between noise exposure and the ability to process temporal cues
were small and non-significan
