{"title":"The clinical relationship between acoustic reflexes and loudness perception.","authors":"L J Denenberg, M W Altshuler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech-elicited acoustic reflexes and three measures of subjective loudness perceptions were administered to 10 normal ears and to 20 ears with confirmed sensorineural hearing loss. Most notable was the comparison between loudness discomfort level and the acoustic reflex, revealing a limited relationship. The use of the acoustic reflex as a clinical predictor of loudness discomfort is questioned.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"79-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12182062","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":"Unoccluded bone conduction screening as an alternative to impedance screening.","authors":"B R Kelly, G L Denniston","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study was undertaken to determine which intensity level of an unoccluded bone-conducted (BC) signal might be best suited for use as a supplemental procedure to an individual pure-tone air-conduction school screening program. Four intensity levels (0, 5, 10, 15 dB hearing level) of a 500 Hz BC tone were presented in ascending order to a public school population in addition to screening by impedance audiometry and pure-tone air conducted signals. Tetrachoric analysis using impedance screening results as a standard comparison revealed that a 10-dB unoccluded BC signal at 500 Hz provided an effective supplemental procedure for identifying conductive pathology in the population studied.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"83-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12182066","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":"Enhancement of the auditory evoked response by conditioning.","authors":"M F Seidemann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Averaged electroencephalic audiometry has previously demonstrated that cortical responses to auditory stimuli increase and decrease in a direct relationship with stimulus sensation levels. This study utilized a conditioning paradigm with bimodal stimulus presentations in order to effect an enhancement of the auditory evoked response at low sensation levels with normal hearing subjects. The conditioning procedure that was used was found to enhance significantly the percentage of responses as well as the response amplitude. The individual specificity of the response remained unaffected by the conditioning. Response latencies were increased as a result of conditioning. Response latencies were increased as a result of conditioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"107-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12183226","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 practice on SISI scores and the relationship of SISI score to the intensity difference limen.","authors":"J W Sanders, E L Harless","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The standard short increment sensitivity index (SISI) was given to 24 normal hearing subjects 10 times in two test sessions. For each subject the intensity difference limen was determined with a quantal method using the SISI apparatus. Although the group data indicated a statistically significant improvement in scores across presentations, the change was not clinically significant, in that the highest mean score continued to be \"negative\" in clinical interpretation. Four individual subjects, however, moved from initial sntations. Highest scores achieved by the subjects were found to be significantly related to intensity difference limen. The results suggest that the clinician must be aware of a potential for a clinically significant improvement in SISI score with practice on the part of some subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"95-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12182070","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":"Prescription of hearing aids: a rationale.","authors":"K W Berger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rationale is presented for a hearing aid prescription. Once the choice of ear(s) to be fitted is determined and whether air or bone conduction fitting is appropriate, output and gain-frequency response characteristics are prescribed on the basis of audiometric test data. The specific prescription data for ouptut are based on uncomfortable loudness levels, and gain-frequency response data are based on a formula that was determined by imposing typical speech parameters over a given hearing loss. A hearing aid prescription is not only intended to predict amplification needs but, just as important, it also provides a method for testing the results of those predictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"71-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12182063","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":"Situational cues in visual speech perception by geriatric subjects.","authors":"D C Garstecki","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Situational cues have been known to enhance visual speech perception. In the present study the influence of relevant and nonrelevant visual and auditory background information on visual perception of everyday sentences was measured in geriatric subjects using videotaped material. Results indicated that visual speech perception with relevant situational cues was significantly different from performance when nonrelevant cues were provided and when situational cues were absent. Individual subject deviations in performance were noted and their therapeutic implications were presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"99-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12182075","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":"Problems with earphone calibration using a manikin.","authors":"J M Ciechanowski, W A Cooper","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The response of a single TDH-39 receiver mounted in a MX-41/AR and an Auraldome cushion was measured psychoacoustically and electroacoustically using standard couplers and the Zwislocki coupler mounted in KEMAR (Knowles Electronic Manikin for Acoustic Research). Although the psychoacoustic data were similar for both cushions, electroacoustic responses differed across cushions and across couplers. It was concluded that an accurate method for evaluating circumaural earphones has not yet been developed and the manikin, in its present form, is unsuitable for supra-aural or circumaural earphone calibration.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 3","pages":"88-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12182073","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":"Comparison of acoustic reflex and behavioral thresholds as a function of stimulus frequency and duration.","authors":"S J Barry, S B Resnick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Threshold-duration functions for the acoustic reflex and threshold-duration functions based upon behavioral measures were obtained on the same group of subjects and compared. The mean temporal integration for the acoustic reflex threshold appears to be comparable to that for the behavioral threshold for stimuli of 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz, but marked individual differences exist in temporal integration of the acoustic reflex. At 4000 Hz, the mean change in the reflex threshold as a function of stimulus duration is significantly greater than the change in the behavioral threshold under the same conditions, suggesting that in the elicitation of the acoustic reflex the auditory system processes energy less efficiently at 4000 Hz than it does at lower frequencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 2","pages":"35-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12158872","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":"Modified rhyme test and synthetic sentence identification test scores of normal and hearing-impaired subjects listening in multitalker noise.","authors":"R Miner, J L Danhauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Articulation functions were established for 35 normal hearing, 6 flat sensorineural, and 6 high frequency sloping sensorineural hearing-impaired subjects using the modified rhyme test (MRT) and synthetic sentence identification test (SSIT) in three message competition ratios (MCRs) of multitalker noise. An analysis of variance revealed significant differences between tests, subject groups, presentation conditions, and interactions between variables. Post hoc analyses revealed that SSIT functions were not significantly different among groups, and that MRT functions were different for each group. The MRT and SSIT were found to be two significantly different tests, each taxing different areas of discrimination. Results suggest that both tests can be used clinically with various MCRs of multitalker noise, but that the poorest MCR for each test does not aid in defining discrimination abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 2","pages":"61-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12158877","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":"Study of the classical and modified alternate binaural loudness balance tests in normal and pathological ears.","authors":"R J Sung, G S Sung","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was carried out to examine recruitment of loudness measured by the classical and the modified, self-recording alternate binaural loudness balance tests in 20 normal subjects and in 14 patients with various kinds of ear pathology. In spite of individual variability, the modified method, when used as described in this study, does provide an indication of the presence or absence of loudness recruitment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Audiology Society","volume":"2 2","pages":"49-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12159738","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}