title: Effects of listener sophistication on respiration audiometry.
abstract: Thirty normal-hearing college-age adults were tested by standard and respiration audiometry (RA) at 1000 Hz to investigate the effects of subject knowledge of the RA procedure. Three levels of sophistication were employed: (1) no knowledge, (2) full knowledge, and (3) deception. No significant effects on RA thresholds were revealed as a function of subject knowledge. RA itself was found to be less satisfactory as a means of measuring auditory threshold because of the difficulty in obtaining responses from some subjects and the degree of subjectivity required to judge responses.
mesh_terms: D001299:Audiometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011584:Psychology; D012119:Respiration