{"title":"Turtle shells as an auditory receptor.","authors":"M L Lenhardt, S W Harkins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evoked responses were obtained from the brainstem of seven box turtles (T. carolina) using air conducted stimuli and also vibratory stimuli applied directly to the carapace. Both stimuli elicited similar neural electrical responses that differed chiefly in sensitivity. The vibratory responses were lower in threshold and higher in amplitude than responses to air conducted clicks. Further, simultaneous masking of vibratory clicks by air conducted noise had negligible effects, whereas vibratory masking completely suppressed the responses to airborne sound, suggesting that the turtle ear is differentially sensitive to sound and vibration. Spinal blocking of somatic pathways had negligible effects on the vibratory-evoked responses, suggesting that the latter originate in the auditory system and are stimulated by bone conduction.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 4","pages":"251-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17736326","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":"A brief review of the use of both tympanometric pressure equalization and middle-ear function in assessing eustachian tube patency.","authors":"G D Givens, M F Seidemann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reviews recent studies on the tympanometric assessment of Eustachian tube patency involving the traditional technique of assessing pressure equilibration plus the analysis of changes in middle-ear ability to transmit energy through its system (middle-ear function). Normative data in the literature on 89 pediatric ears and 48 adult ears are discussed. The data illustrated a significant loss of information if pressure change is measured without consideration of middle-ear function change. Recommendations for the clinic are given and the need stated for extending such work to the pathological ear.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 3","pages":"149-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735251","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 two procedural modifications of the frequency of false-alarm responses during pure-tone threshold determination.","authors":"J E Dancer, M Conn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In normal-hearing young adults without tinnitus, HTLs were collected using 5-db steps, and false alarms (FA's) noted, at octaves from .25-8 kc/s either in quiet or in a white noise background set at 15 db sensation level for each S. In Exper. I (N:10), the ascending and descending modes did not yield significantly different numbers of FA's in quiet; in noise, FA's increased significantly vs the quiet condition in the ascending but not in the descending modes, while in noise, furthermore, FA's increased significantly for the ascending vs the descending mode. In a similar Exper. II (N:10), the 4 combinations (single- and pulsed-tone presentations, ascending and descending modes) showed that FA's were significantly fewest with a descending, pulsed-tone technique. It was recommended that when FA's pose a problem when using the ascending mode, single-tone technique (ASHA guidelines), the clinician change to the descending, pulse-tone technique to reduce FA's by increasing the stimulus certainty under difficult listening circumstances.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 3","pages":"215-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735255","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":"Environmental noise and children: review of recent findings.","authors":"D M De Joy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 3","pages":"181-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735253","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 neonatal hyperbilirubinemia on Token Test performance of six-year-old children.","authors":"M L Lenhardt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Token Test (TT) performance was investigated of 100 6-yr-old children who had had hyperbilirubinemia as infants. Half these Ss had been given phototherapy for that condition, half had not. Group data revealed that both subgroups performed significantly below the normed average on those sections of the TT that place the heaviest load on short-term auditory verbal memory. Ss who had not been given phototherapy outperformed those who had been given the light treatment. The TT even in abbreviated form (only 15 commands) was a useful tool in identifying short-term memory difficulties in this population. Poor short-term memory performance may predispose these children to difficulties in listening comprehension later in life.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 3","pages":"195-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17742122","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":"Vocal suppression as a neonatal response to auditory stimuli.","authors":"T Watterson, S C Riccillo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medically normal neonates in a hospital were tested (mn age: 37.5 hrs old) under two prestimulus states, calm and crying. One group of 15 Ss was randomly assigned to a condition in which a 4-min tape of a woman's voice at 80 db SPL was presented. The other group of 15 Ss was presented with a tape of random noise for 4 min. There were 4-min control tests in each state with no stimulus presentation. Two observers independently timed crying episodes. In the calm state, there was no difference within the speech group between the speech and the control conditions; however, the random-noise group cried significantly less during the noise than in the control. In the crying state, both groups cried significantly less during the stimulus than in the control, noise being significantly superior as a suppressor. There is the possibility that neonates suppress reflexive crying in the presence of an auditory stimulus the better to listen. This possibility may be useful in some phase of screening neonatal hearing sensitivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 3","pages":"205-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735254","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":"An approach to the study of attentional components in auditory tasks.","authors":"F Barroso","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some investigators have proposed a number of strategies or components of attention based on the analysis of the demands or requirements of certain laboratory tasks. The present investigation approached the analysis of auditory and visual attention from a different perspective. Volunteers (14 F, 27 M) from the health professions were given two widely-used auditory attentional tasks (remembering taped word lists, and shadowing, in monaural, binaural, and dichotic modes) and three visual tests (Stroop color-word tests, embedded figures, and anagrams) that appear to tap important aspects of attentional functioning; 18 indices of aspects of performance were taken from or derived from scores on these tests. Strong, significant r's emerged for a number of paired variables, suggesting that performance in these tasks share common elements. A principal factor analysis performed on the correlation matrix yielded a remarkably clean solution that uncovered four common sources for the variation observed in performance: Factor I identifies an aspect of attention tapped whenever distractions must be overcome; II is involved in continuously tracking or monitoring semantic aspects of connected material; III is an \"executive\" function that maintains or controls other aspects of attention; IV can be labeled breadth of attention, dealing with opposite aspects of the same underlying mechanism. These appear to be attentional components that underlie performance even in tasks that impose dissimilar demands or that have been interpreted as engaging different aspects of the attentional system. The factor analysis also provided some tentative answers for questions related to the comparability of different auditory tasks and of different aspects of performance for the same task.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 3","pages":"157-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735252","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":"Auditory response behavior of severely and profoundly multiply handicapped children.","authors":"D P Gans, C Flexer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Severely and profoundly involved multiply handicapped children present special problems for the audiologist. Although a substantial amount of data is available on the behavioral responses of normal babies, there is a surprising dearth of similar information concerning handicapped children. In the present study, the responses of 31 severely and profoundly involved multiply handicapped children were studied by behavioral observation audiometry. Children's chronological age ranged from 7 to 153 months, while developmental age was estimated as 0 to 24 months. An experienced judge rated each of 9 specific behaviors either absent, strong, or weak on each trial. The stimulus types were a broadband noise, narrowband noises centered at .5 and at 2 kc/s, and speech either unfiltered or high-pass filtered at 1.2 kc/s, presented to S by a loudspeaker at 45 degrees azimuth, at 20, 40, 60, and 80 db re normal HTL. The interrelationships between stimulus variables, types of responses, and developmental level of the children were evaluated. Overall, the children responded differentially to the 5 stimulus types. Furthermore, the higher-functioning children responded much differently to the sounds than did the lower-functioning children. It was recommended that any behavioral technique be used together with objective tests in this most difficult population, and that testing be repeated over an extended period of time.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 2","pages":"137-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17270394","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}
M L Lenhardt, S Bellmund, R A Byles, S W Harkins, J A Musick
{"title":"Marine turtle reception of bone-conducted sound.","authors":"M L Lenhardt, S Bellmund, R A Byles, S W Harkins, J A Musick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An individual each of the marine turtles, Caretta caretta and Lepidochelys kempi, were stimulated with audiofrequencies delivered directly to the skull. Startle responses were observed to underwater stimuli of .25 and .5 kc/s. Neural responses to underwater bone-conducted (bc) sound were recorded in another aquatic form, the snapping turtle, Chelydridae serpentina. The morphology of the neural response suggested the involvement of the auditory system in bc responsivity. Bc hearing appears to be a reception mechanism for marine turtles with the skull and shell acting as receiving surfaces. Turtles are capable of receiving the low-frequency spectrum of the natal beach, which may serve as one of the cues in nesting returns.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 2","pages":"119-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17734037","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":"Onset-offset effects of the human brainstem auditory-evoked response.","authors":"L F Elfner, A R Barnes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brainstem auditory-evoked responses (BSAER's) were obtained from 4 normal-hearing young adults to a 2-kc/s tonal stimulus of 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7- or 8-msec duration at 60 db sensation level. Latency of Jewett Wave V was recorded averaging 4096 sweeps; stimuli had a 1-msec rise-fall time, with a 65-msec interstimulus interval. A Wave V response to the onset transient was present for all durations. For stimulus durations of less than 5 msec no reliable offset response was noted. Latency measures indicated the onset response to be much less variable than the offset response. The onset response latency of Wave V remained stable over a stimulus duration range of 2-8 msec. The BSAER of a single S demonstrated the intrasubject variability of the offset response as a function of stimulus duration.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 2","pages":"101-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17734035","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}