Selective attention in a vocal abuse population.
The speech discrimination abilities in noise of 25 female vocal abusers and 25 female subjects without a history of vocal abuse were compared, employing the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Selective Attention. The vocal abuse group was found to be significantly poorer in discrimination ability than the control group. A post hoc analysis of the three background noises (fan noise, cafeteria noise, male speaker) yielded significant differences for both groups with the fan and cafeteria noise versus the one speaker noise. A possible relationship between listening in the presence of noise and vocal misuse while speaking in the presence of noise is offered.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D013067:Speech Perception; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000523:psychology*