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Inter-stimulus interval in audiometry for neonates.

S E Gerber·T K Davis·K M Mastrini
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The usual paradigm employed for both clinical and experimental evaluation of auditory responsiveness of newborns dictates that signal presentations be separated by a minimum of 15 s. Furthermore, this paradigm requires that there be 8 presentations of the signal and that two responses among the 8 trials should be taken as normal responsiveness. Many have been concerned about accepting 25% as normal, and would prefer a paradigm that could lead to increased responsiveness. A procedure with inter-stimulus intervals longer than 15 s might be that paradigm. Therefore, the following experiment employed inter-stimulus intervals of 15, 30 and 60 s to examine responsiveness of infants young enough to be in a newborn nursery. Each infant received 24 signal presentations (8 with each of the 3 inter-stimulus intervals), and these were counter-balanced across babies. Although there is evidence of response habituation across time, there is also evidence that longer inter-stimulus intervals do lead to increased responsiveness.

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S E Gerber, T K Davis, K M Mastrini. 1988. Inter-stimulus interval in audiometry for neonates.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-5876(88)90069-9

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