🎧 Sound Gap Detection Test: Auditory Temporal Resolution

Three bursts of noise play one after another, and exactly one of them has a very short silence cut into the middle. Pick the burst that stutters and the silence gets shorter; miss it and the silence grows back. After twelve rounds the value settles near your temporal resolution threshold, and that figure in milliseconds is your score. The bursts play at slightly different volumes so loudness cannot give the answer away, and the gap moves every time. It is the principle behind clinical gap-detection testing: how finely your ear follows a sound changing over time.