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L L Price

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PubMed1990

Loudness and auditory brain stem evoked response.

Auditory brain stem responses evoked with click stimuli of varying repetition rates (11, 31, 51, and 91 clicks/sec) and intensities but judged as being equally loud as three reference loudness levels (90, 80, and 70 phons) were examined in normal-hearing listeners. Analysis of wave component latencies and amplitudes indicated that loudness level changes are reflected in the brain stem response. However, the combined influence of stimulus rate and intensity was greater than that of perceived loudness level. It was concluded that the auditory brain stem response does not provide a direct link to loudness perception.

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PubMed1989

Temporal summation of repetitive click stimuli.

Monaural loudness balances were performed by eight normal-hearing subjects to determine the effect of click repetition rate on loudness sensation. Click trains of 500 msec duration were matched in loudness to a standard 500 msec 1000 Hz tone burst presented at three reference loudness levels (70, 80, and 90 phons). Click trains were presented at repetition rates of 11, 31, 51, and 91 clicks per sec. It was found that click trains at faster repetition rates required lower intensities for judgments of equal loudness sensation. This finding was attributed to the process of temporal loudness summation. The magnitude and nature of the temporal summation process as well as the influence of the reference loudness level are discussed.

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Dichotic listening in adults with sensorineural hearing loss.

Digits and consonant-vowel (CV) nonsense syllables were presented dichotically to 36 normal-hearing subjects and 36 subjects with bilaterally symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss. The normal-hearing subjects performed significantly better in the recall of both digits and CV nonsense syllables, and recall decreased significantly as the degree of hearing loss increased. The expected right ear advantage was observed for the normal-hearing subjects on both tests. As a group, the hearing-loss subjects showed no significant ear preference, and ear preference did not vary significantly with the degree of hearing loss. However, individual hearing-loss subjects showed marked ear asymmetry for the dichotic digits. For both dichotic tests, individual ear preference increased as the degree of hearing loss increased. Significant but low correlations were observed between better ear speech discrimination scores for the hearing-loss subjects and the preferred ear for dichotic CV nonsense syllables.

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