A test-retest reliability study on clinical measurement of masking level differences.
Measurement of binaural release from masking was studied in 30 normal and 10 hearing-impaired subjects to determine the test-retest reliability of masking level differences measured with a clinically feasible technique on generally available clinical equipment. The instrumentation/methodology was found to elicit reliable, consistent, rapid measurements for both 500-Hz and speech (spondaic) stimuli which were comparable with those generally reported in the literature as laboratory-conducted experiments.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration; D008875:Middle Aged; D010470:Perceptual Masking