title: Speech discrimination in quiet and in white noise by patients with peripheral and central lesions.
abstract: Speech-discrimination scores in quiet and in white noise (O dB S/N ratio) were obtained from six groups of subjects. Differences of 40% or more between scores in quiet and in white noise were observed for less than 1% of the normal ears tested but were found for 8.0% of ears with noise trauma, 48% of ears with Meniere's disease, 62% of ears with subsequently surgically confirmed 8th-nerve tumors, 14% of ears of patients with multiple sclerosis, and 42% of ears contralateral to the lesion in patients with temporal-lobe damage.
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000503:physiopathology; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D009622:Noise; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D013060:Speech; D000159:Vestibulocochlear Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology