On the effect of cross-hearing and clinical masking on the auditory brain-stem evoked response.
The effects of cross-hearing from the non-test ear were examined during the acquisition of the auditory brain-stem evoked response (ABR). Effective masking levels were derived from a normal hearing subject and the results used to obtain masked versus unmasked ABR thresholds in varying types of unilateral hearing loss. The results indicate that in the presence of a hearing loss adequate masking of the non-test ear is essential for valid ABR results.
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D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000503:physiopathology; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology