{"title":"Quality judgments of hearing aid-processed speech and music by normal and otopathologic listeners.","authors":"J L Punch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ten normal listeners and ten listeners with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss were given a paired-comparison task designed to elicit relative quality preferences among hearing aids when male speech, female speech, and music were processed by five different instruments. Results revealed notably high intrasubject test-retest reliability within the two groups of listeners for the male speech condition and in normal listeners for the female speech condition. Preferences assigned for any one of the three stimuli were found to be statistically correlated with those assigned for each of the other two stimuli. Furthermore, preferences of the otopathologic listeners were statistically equivalent those yielded by the normal listeners. Within the separate groups of listeners, rankings derived from the preferences of individual subjects were highly related to those of the other subjects within the respective group, suggesting the lack of a hearing aid-listener interaction. The relationship between preferences and \"goodness\" of selected electroacoustic characteristics, examined descriptively, was found to be equivocal. Overall results suggest that, while paired-comparison quality judgments may serve as an adequately reliable and adequately differentiating index of behavioral performance with hearing aids, incorporation of such a task within the traditional philosophy of hearing aid evaluation appears unjustifiable.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 4","pages":"179-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11861507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of increased stimulus rate on brainstem electric response (BER) audiometry as a function of age.","authors":"S M Fujikawa, B A Weber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this investigation was to describe the effects of rate of stimulus presentation on the brainstem electric response in groups selected as models for such brainstem disorders as demyelinating diseases and focal lesions. Two groups, infants and geriatric adults, were chosen as models because of their known neurological differences from a normal young adult population. Three groups of eight subjects each; infants, geriatric adults, and young adults were tested using routine brainstem electric response techniques with four rates of click presentations. Using the wave V latency at the slow rate (13/sec) as base line, three latency shift scores were obtained for each of the three fast rates (33/sec), 50/sec, 67/sec). Analysis of the data revealed greater shifts for infants and geriatric adults than were present for the young adults. The experimenters concluded that the imposition of a fast rate of click presentation offers a promise as a clinical tool for the discovery of brainstem differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"147-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11817285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audiologic detection of auditory processing disorders in children.","authors":"F N Martin, J G Clark","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A group of 11 normal children was compared to a group of language learning-disabled children on two auditory discrimination tasks. The word intelligibility by picture identification test was distorted by low pass filtering and bandpass filtering to be used as distorted monaural discrimination tasks and as tests of binaural fusion. Results revealed that the two groups could not be differentiated on the basis of distorted speech presented monaurally in diotic over dichotic scores than did the normal group. A procedure for audiologic screening for language learning-disabled children with normal hearing sensitivity is suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"140-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11818857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ability of hearing-impaired listeners to understand connected discourse.","authors":"T F Gray, C E Speaks","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirty-three hearing-impaired listeners estimated the intelligibility of connected discourse presented in quiet and in the presence of noise. Speech-understanding scores were compared to routine audiometric measures and the effects of both signal-to-noise ratio and level of amplification upon speech understanding were investigated. The listeners were able to estimate the intelligibility of connected discourse reliably. Measures of auditory sensitivity were correlated highly with percentage of understanding only when connected discourse was presented at a low level and a favorable signal-to-noise ratio. The relationship of routine measures and speech understanding was low. A method for obtaining estimates of the intelligibility of running speech is presented along with the results for a typical audiology clinic population.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"159-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11818861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hearing handicap scores and categories for subjects with normal and impaired hearing sensitivity.","authors":"R L Schow, J C Tannahill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hearing handicap scale, a commonly used self-assessment measure, was administered to 50 subjects with normal hearing and hearing impairment. These subjects were then divided into three groups based on pure tone test results so that the range of hearing handicap scale scores could be determined for different hearing sensitivities. Subjects in one group of 20 exhibited hearing sensitivity of 10 dB hearing threshold level or better. A second group of 10 subjects had hearing sensitivity of 11--25 dB hearing threshold level. The third group of 20 subjects had sensitivity poorer than 25 dB hearing threshold level. Percentage scores for the subjects with the most sensitive hearing clustered from 0 to 20% with a mean score of 7.8%. The intermediate group had a mean score of 25.6%. Scores for the hearing-impaired group clustered between 40 and 70% with a mean score of 54%. Score variability was about twice as great in the two groups with poorer sensitivity. It is suggested that hearing handicap performance may be classified into one of four categories, ranging from no handicap to severe handicap.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"134-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11368416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial. Definition of audiology.","authors":"J D Harris","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is noted that the generic term audiology as the science of hearing, and the concept of the multidisciplinary audiology center, is some years older than the emergent independent profession of clinical audiology. The broader term is still useful as a device to lend much needed cohesion to a variety of approaches to the study of hearing, as a term to elicit public support for hearing research in general, and as a device to attract young persons to aspects, not necessarily clinical, of the biology of the auditory process. A trend is deplored to dissuade or even force all persons involved in serious study of hearing to refrain from designating themselves as audiologists; it is hoped that the words audiology and audiologist will continue to be very broadly defined, and it is thought that to restrict them would do ASHA-certified audiologists in the long run more harm than good. It is suggested that these virtues of the generic word audiology could be amicably retained, while offering a fully professional identity to practitioners of audiology in the clinic, by rewording the current \"CCC-A\" to read \"Certificate of Competence in Clinical Audiology\" and its holders be known, as in fact they commonly are, as \"Clinical Audiologists;\" this by analogy with the current widespread practice in psychology.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"121-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11818852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Properties of acoustic reflex adaptation to pure tones and one-third octave bands of noise.","authors":"D A Klood, D J Nearhoff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acoustic reflex thresholds were obtained by a computerized threshold search procedure for two pure tones (500 and 2000 Hz) and two one-third octave bands of noise (436--553 and 1752--2253 Hz). The stimuli were presented at 5- and 10-dB sensation level (re: reflex threshold) with an interstimulus interval of at least 80 sec. Acoustic reflex adaptation was measured at predetermined stimulus durations of 15, 30, 45, and 60 sec. For the pure tone stimuli, reflex adaptation was found to be frequency dependent, with the 2000-Hz tone producing significantly greater adaptation than the 500-Hz pure tone. The main effects of sensation level and duration were not statistically significant for the pure tone stimuli. Results for the noise stimuli revealed no significant differences in reflex adaptation for the effects of frequency, sensation level, and duration. The overall intersubject variability of acoustic reflex adaptation was greater for the noise stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"126-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11818854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of acoustic reflex on acquisition of temporary threshold shift from short duration noise bursts.","authors":"C C Olsen, J F Brandt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the acoustic reflex elicited by short duration noise bursts and the resultant temporary threshold shift. Acoustic reflex responses were monitored during the presentation of fatiguing stimuli consisting of interrupted and continuously presented octave noise bands (500--1000 and 1500--3000 Hz) presented at 98 dB sound pressure level. For interrupted stimuli, burst duration was maintained at 100 msec while five different off times ranging from 50 to 450 msec (in 100-msec steps) were used. Exposure duration was varied to equate total energy received in each off-time condition. Noise exposures having shorter off times produced significantly more reflex activity than did exposures with longer off times. Greater impedance changes were elicited by the high band noise than by the low band noise exposure. Although the high band noise tended to produce greater reflex activity it also produced significantly more temporary threshold shift. Differences in the amount of temporary threshold shift produced by the two noise bands could not be attributed to the effects of reflex contraction.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 3","pages":"151-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11818862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Admittance tympanometry in otosclerotic ears.","authors":"J T Jacobson, T M Mahoney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Twenty-eight surgically confirmed otosclerotic ears were evaluated to determine whether tympanometric admittance measurements could differentiate otosclerosis from a normal population. Subjects were tympanometrically measured at test conditions B220, B660, G220 and G660 Hz. When comparing mean curve peak amplitude to normative standards, 20 ears showed significantly low admittance tympanograms. Further investigation revealed no significant differences in curve width or pressure of the curve peak. Of the remaining eight otosclerotic ears, all produced diphasic \"W\"-notched tympanometric configurations. Diagnostic implications and physiological hypothesis are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 2","pages":"91-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12098224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Side branch and parallel vent effects in real ears and in acoustical and electrical models.","authors":"G A Studebaker, R M Cox","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of the project was to demonstrate and explain the acoustic effects of side branch and parallel vents in individual real ears. It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances. However, when the input system incorporates a side branch vent the sound pressure produced in the ear canal at frequencies above the vent-associated resonance is less than that produced when the input system is unvented. This effect is not seen when the input system is associated with a parallel vent. Data obtained in the real ear canals were compared to analogous measurements made using an acoustical model (the Zwislocki coupler) and an electrical model designed to simulate the hearing aid receiver, input tubing, earmold, ear canal, and eardrum. Both models yielded data very similar to the real ear results. The advantages of each model in predicting the effects of individual earmold vents are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"3 2","pages":"108-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12099497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}