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Auditory filter asymmetry in the hearing impaired
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Auditory filter asymmetry in the hearing impaired

Richard S Tyler, Joseph W Hall, Brian R Glasberg, Brian C. J Moore and Roy D Patterson
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.76(5), pp.1363-1368
11/1984
DOI: 10.1121/1.391452
PMID: 6512098

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Abstract

Thresholds for 2-kHz sinusoidal signals were determined in the presence of a notched-noise masker, for six normal-hearing listeners and 12 listeners with cochlear hearing losses. Following Patterson and Nimmo Smith [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 229-245 (1980)], conditions were used where the notch was placed both symmetrically and asymmetrically about the signal frequency. The auditory filter shape for both the low- and high-frequency side of the filter was calculated using the rounded-exponential form of the filter. In six hearing-impaired listeners, the auditory filter shape showed a shallow low-frequency skirt indicating pronounced susceptibility to the upward spread of masking. In two hearing-impaired listeners, the filter shape showed a shallow high-frequency skirt, indicating pronounced susceptibility to the downward spread of masking. Two other listeners with mild threshold losses had steeper and more symmetric filters than normal, suggesting either a small conductive loss or an attenuation factor of sensorineural origin not associated with a degradation of frequency resolution. In the remaining two listeners, the auditory filter had too little selectivity for its shape to be reliably determined.

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