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SOUND SEQUENCE
How Quickly Can You Identify Two Sounds?
In Sound Sequence, you will listen to quick sequences of two sounds, and identifying the sounds using the corresponding arrows. As you progress through the task, the sounds occur more and more rapidly. The duration of the sounds themselves doesn't change, but the amount of silence between them (sometimes called the inter-stimulus interval, or ISI) gradually becomes shorter, challenging your brain to process and identify the sounds more quickly.Your results give an indication of your brain's rate processing capability by showing the shortest ISI at which you were able to identify the sounds correctly.
The ability to process auditory information within milliseconds is critical for accurate speech perception, and therefore, for the development of language skills. Language skills, in turn, are critical factors in behavior, socialization and learning to read.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
In this game, there are two sounds. The high sound corresponds to the up arrow and the low sound corresponds to the down arrow. You will listen to a sequence of sounds, and use the arrows to indicate what you heard.
Adjust the volume on your computer to a comfortable level.
When you are ready to listen, click once on the speaker icon (the blinking blue half-circle on the left).
You will hear two different sounds. The sounds could be in any combination: high-low, low-high, high-high, or low-low.
Click on the arrows to indicate the sound sequence you heard. For example, if you heard high-low, click once on the up arrow and then once on the down arrow. (The arrows will flash at first to show you where to click.)
Click once on the speaker icon to begin the next round.
(Keyboard shortcut: once the game has begun, you may use the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard to operate the up and down arrows in the game, and the left arrow key on your keyboard to activate the game's speaker icon.)
Keep playing until the game stops automatically. When you are finished, you'll get your results, and you can read about the relationship between language skills and tasks like Sound Sequence.
