title: Measures of signal processing in persons with sensorineural hearing loss below 6 kHz.
abstract: Estimates of threshold, wide- and narrow-band noise masking, frequency and amplitude modulation detection, gap detection, and rate discrimination were obtained from 10 subjects with near-normal hearing at frequencies above 6 kHz, but severe-to-profound hearing losses at lower frequencies. The same measures were obtained from 10 young control subjects with normal hearing sensitivity for all frequencies up to 16 kHz. The hearing-impaired subjects were able to process sounds in the region of near-normal hearing sensitivity as well as the unimpaired control subjects. Performance in the low-frequency, impaired region depended on the lowest frequency of near-normal hearing sensitivity.
authors.affiliation: Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory, Lousiana State University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Cullen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test