The aural-overload test: twenty years later.
This paper reviews the underlying theory, the psychophysical test procedure, and the clinical applications of the aural-overload test. Clinical applications include (1) the delineation of persons susceptible to acoustic trauma, (2) the evaluation of post-exposure damage to the auditory system, (3) assistance in site-of-lesion testing, and (4) the assessment of loudness recruitment. The relationship between aural-overload thresholds and speech-discrimination scores for normal and pathological ears is also discussed.
D001306:Auditory Pathways; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D003051:Cochlea / Q000502:physiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D013060:Speech; D013997:Time Factors