Journal article
Frequency Resolution and Hearing Loss
British Journal of Audiology, Vol.16(1), pp.45-63
1982
DOI: 10.3109/03005368209081507
PMID: 7055654
Abstract
Future scientific and diagnostic interest in frequency resolution requires an evaluation of the different methods that are available to measure it. We compared three methods: (1) pure-tone thresholds in broadband noise, (2) pure-tone thresholds in the presence of a fixed pure-tone masker, and (3) psychoacoustical tuning curves. We additionally obtained estimates of temporal integration and of speech intelligibility in noise. Three subject groups were tested: 10 normals, 13 subjects with a noise-induced hearing loss and 18 subjects with a cochlear hearing loss but no history of noise exposure. Generally the three measures of frequency resolution show moderate agreement with each other. Poor frequency resolution is invariably associated with a pure-tone threshold loss. Temporal integration appears unrelated either to the pure-tone threshold loss or frequency resolution. Some of the measures of frequency resolution display significant correlations with speech intelligibility in noise. However, since both variables are correlated with pure-tone threshold loss, the exact relationship between frequency resolution and speech intelligibility cannot be clearly established.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Frequency Resolution and Hearing Loss
- Creators
- Richard S Tyler - 1MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RDElizabeth J Wood - 1MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RDMariano Fernandes - 1MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- British Journal of Audiology, Vol.16(1), pp.45-63
- Publisher
- Informa UK Ltd
- DOI
- 10.3109/03005368209081507
- PMID
- 7055654
- ISSN
- 0300-5364
- eISSN
- 1708-8186
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1982
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984002412602771
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