title: The relationship of audiometric thresholds elicited with pulsed, warbled, and pulsed-warbled tones in adults with normal hearing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) guidelines allow pulsed and warbled tones in measuring audiometric thresholds and include test frequencies of 3000 and 6000 Hz. However, no research has examined the relationship between thresholds obtained with these stimuli at these frequencies. This study investigated the relationship between thresholds obtained with pulsed, warbled, and pulsed-warbled tones.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thresholds from 25 listeners were obtained using pulsed, warbled, and pulsed-warbled tones at test frequencies recommended by ASHA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thresholds elicited with pulsed, warbled, and pulsed-warbled tones did not significantly differ.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings support using pulsed, warbled, and pulsed-warbled tones for threshold measurements at the frequencies recommended by ASHA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. cfranklin@missouristate.edu
authors.forename: Clifford
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: Kasey
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Smith-Olinde
authors.forename: Nannette
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nicholson
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D019985:Benchmarking; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult