{"title":"A comparative study of children's performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and the Token Test.","authors":"F M Fusilier, N J Lass","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and the Token Test (TT) were administered to 24 5- and 6-yr-olds. There was a significant positive correlation between performance on the TT and only 2 of the 12 subtests of the ITPA: Grammatic Closure (p less than .05) and Sound Blending (p less than .05). TT scores did not correlate significantly with any of the ITPA subtests at the representational level of language. These findings support the conclusion of Williams and Marks (J. Speech Hear. Res., 1972, 15, 323ff) on the lack of validity of tests of receptive auditory comprehension which employ simultaneous presentation of stimuli through visual and auditory modalities and the arbitrary selection of one of the channels (auditory) as the primary process being measured. Implications for clinical use of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the TT were discussed and suggestions made for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 1","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17599709","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":"The effects of age and sex on phonemic processing time during a picture recognition task.","authors":"Y Fischbach-Kottman, M P Rastatter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both simple motor and choice reaction times of 5 groups of normal children and adults (6 F and 6 M in each group, mn ages of groups: 4.2, 7.4, 10.3, 13.2 and 18.5 yrs) were measured to 12 pairs of pictured, taped verbal monosyllables presented binaurally. Ss were required to move the R hand from a rest to touch a picture either left or right depending upon which of a pair of words was presented aurally. Words differed only in the initial consonant. S was either given knowledge of which word would be presented (simple motor reaction time) or not (choice reaction time). The second value minus the first was taken as phonemic processing skills improved for picture recognition, both in speed and accuracy, with development generally complete by Age 13 for speed, but with significant increases in accuracy continuing into adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17599705","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":"Interlist equivalencies for a numeral and a vowel/consonant multiple-choice monosyllabic test for severely/profoundly deaf young adults.","authors":"J C Webster","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conventional multiple-choice speech tests measuring discrimination of initial/final consonants, and the CID \"Everyday\" Sentences test are too difficult for many young adults whose hearing is severely/profoundly limited. Using the 6-choice closed-set paradigm, a new 12-item Numerals test was developed as well as a modification of the Pickett et al (Gallaudet) modified rhyme test of vowel and consonantal discrimination. This test, here called the Webster-Pickett (W/P) test, essentially expands the original 2 alternative lists to 6, with some further minor changes. Both these tests were administered to 35 students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). In combination, the new tests provided usable scores for the NTID population. Most of those who yielded scores of zero on the W-22, on the CID sentences tests and on the W/P test nevertheless scored above zero on Numerals, while those who scored 100% on Numerals scored between 0 and 100% on the W/P test. All 6 recorded lists of the Numerals test were equivalent. Slight corrections to those raw scores between 10 and 90% on the 6 lists of the W/P were proposed to yield interlist equivalence.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 1","pages":"17-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17599706","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":"Speech intelligibility of deaf speakers and distinctive feature usage.","authors":"E O Mencke, G J Ochsner, E W Testut","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech samples (41 CNC monosyllables) of 22 deaf children were analyzed using two distinctive-feature systems, one acoustic and one physiologic. Moderate to high correlations between intelligibility scores by listener judges vs correct feature usage were obtained for positive as well as negative features of both systems. Further, higher correlations between percent-correct feature usage scores vs listener intelligibility scores were observed for phonemes in the initial vs final position-in-work regardless of listener-judge experience, feature system, or presentation mode. These findings suggest that either acoustic or physiologic feature analysis can be employed in describing the articulation of deaf talkers. In general, either of these feature systems also predicts with fair to good accuracy the intelligibility of deaf speakers as judged by either experienced or inexperienced listeners. In view of the appreciably higher correlations obtained between feature use and intelligibility scores in initial compared to final position-in-word, however, caution should be exercised with either of the feature systems studied in predicting the intelligibility of a deaf speaker's final phoneme.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 1","pages":"63-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17599708","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}
E A Peterson, J S Augenstein, C L Hazelton, D Hetrick, R M Levene, D C Tanis
{"title":"Some cardiovascular effects of noise.","authors":"E A Peterson, J S Augenstein, C L Hazelton, D Hetrick, R M Levene, D C Tanis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We recently reported that exposure to moderately high noise levels for 9 months produced sustained blood pressure elevations in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) without impairing their auditory sensitivity (Peterson et al, Science, 1981, 211, 143Off). In the present study, a continuation and elaboration of the earlier work, 4 chair-restrained monkeys (M. fascicularis) were studied concurrently. After 3 mo of low-noise conditions, 2 experimental Ss were exposed to a realistic noise sequence [Leq24: 85 db(A)], 24 hrs per day for about 6 mo. Compared to control animals who remained under low-noise conditions throughout the experiment, the noise-exposed Ss again exhibited a substantial increase in blood pressure, and also manifested orderly changes in the diurnal rhythm of heart rate, blood pressure, and \"pauses\" in cardiac rhythm. Our results conflict in detail with certain findings from earlier epidemiological studies, possibly because of differences in the species used, experimental design, or sampling strategies. The desirability of undertaking long-term prospective studies in this area is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 1","pages":"35-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17599707","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":"Some parameters affecting Békésy audiometric thresholds.","authors":"I M Young, F Harbert, L D Lowry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bekesy automatic audiometric findings may be affected by various factors such as contralateral masking, starting frequency, starting level, exposure to stimulating sound and different stages of some disease entity. These findings are seen mostly on steady-tone tracings as revealed by peak-to-peak amplitude reductions and threshold drifts. This paper is concerned with automatic audiometry parameters which have been little known or ignored by many investigators. Detailed audiometric case histories from 6 patients with a variety of unilateral sensorineural hearing impairments showed, e.g., that contralateral masking in the normal ear can produce striking effects on tracings to steady-state tones in the affected ear. Various starting frequencies produced marked effects on separation between pulsed-and steady-tone tracings if hearing was tested starting at suprathreshold levels. A patient diagnosed as having an early endolymphatic hydrops retested within 1 hr following an episodic attack displayed varieties of findings. The automatic audiometric method demonstrates the interrelation of level and adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 4","pages":"221-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17736324","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 occupational hearing losses among military engineers and their civilian counterparts.","authors":"J L Fletcher, D W Chandler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A previous study (Chandler and Fletcher, J. Aud. Res., 1983, 23, 23-32) examined group hearing loss of 209 U.S. Army engineers by comparing current with reference audiograms. The sample was categorized by military occupation specialty, age, and time on job. The present study reports comparable data for 187 civilian engineers on the same Army post exposed to essentially the same noise. These had less hearing loss than their military counterparts. Some reasons are suggested, such as attrition of the civilian workforce because of hearing problems, and a likely greater exposure of the military engineers to noises not job-related. Age was less important than time on the job. Both groups, however, exhibited significantly lower hearing levels than the industrial population of Glorig et al (Am. Acad. Ophthalmol. Otolaryngol., 1957) at the 1954 Wisconsin State Fair, possibly because both military and civilian personnel at this Army post had been for some years in an aggressive hearing conservation program.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 4","pages":"241-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17736325","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":"Air-bone gap distributions in normal-hearing subjects.","authors":"T Frank, C S Klobuka, P J Sotir","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unmasked (UM) and masked (M) AC and BC thresholds were obtained on 48 normal-hearing young adults. The UMAC and MBC thresholds were in agreement with standardized reference levels. The mean air-bone gaps (A-B G's) were less than 1 db for the three comparisons (UMAC minus UMBC; UMAC minus MBC; MAC minus MBC). The distribution of the individual Ss' A-B G's for each AC minus BC threshold comparison resembled a slightly flattened normal curve showing that some Ss had a positive while some had a negative A-B G. Over the 3 comparisons per S, 34% of the Ss exhibited negligible A-B G's of +/- 2.5 db, while 17.4% exhibited A-B G's greater than or equal to 7.5 db. The common rule that Ss with a normal conductive hearing mechanism have an A-B G of 0 db can only be used for mean data and not be applied to individual Ss tested in clinical practice or used for subjective BC calibration.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 4","pages":"261-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17736327","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":"Cerebral asymmetry for verbal information in severe aphasia.","authors":"M P Rastatter, A J Gallaher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reaction times (rt's) of 3 M and 6 F Ss aged 57-84 yrs (mn = 69 yrs) with severe Broca's aphasia and of 9 normal matched Ss were measured to taped verbal stimuli (12 word-pairs posing minimal phonemic contrasts; half the contrasts were prevocalic, half postvocalic. Identical words were presented monotically to both ears; difference in manual rt to pictures of these words was taken to indicate ear advantage). The aphasics had limited but reliable auditory comprehension and minimal speech; they evidenced L-ear advantage in rt's although the postvocalic rt as compared with prevocalic rt was normal. These results were interpreted as indicating a latent R-brain linguistic capacity which emerged after significant L-brain damage.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 4","pages":"271-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17153233","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":"Temporal summation in normally and abnormally hearing chinchillas.","authors":"R I Davis, J A Ferraro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Young adult monauralized chinchillas (N:5) were conditioned to cross a barrier in response to 7 pure tones from .5-4 kc/s. Tone bursts were either 20- or 500-msec long. Individual S's yielded threshold data for the longer duration comparable to published norms. Group mn difference between thresholds at 20- vs 500-msec durations [i.e., temporal summation (TS)] was 7 db, or 4.7 db less than TS reported for normal chinchillas reported by Wall et al (J. Aud. Res., 1981, 21, 29-37) and others. One S yielded no TS. After exposure for 4 hrs to a 2-kc/s tone at 120 db SPL, group mn thresholds for the 20-msec tones were only 1 db poorer than those for 500-msec tones (i.e., negligible TS). TS is clearly altered in noise-induced hearing loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"23 4","pages":"281-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17736328","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}