title: Auditory Evoked Potential Audiograms Compared with Behavioral Audiograms in Aquatic Animals.
abstract: Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) have become popular for estimating hearing thresholds and audiograms. What is the utility of these measurements? How do AEP audiograms compare with behavioral audiograms? In general, AEP measurements for fishes and marine mammals often underestimate behavioral thresholds, but comparisons are especially complicated when the AEP and behavioral measures are obtained under different acoustic conditions. There is no single representative relationship between AEP and behavioral audiograms and these audiograms should not be considered equivalent. We suggest that the most valuable comparisons are those made by the same researcher using similar acoustic conditions for both measurements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. sisneros@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sisneros
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. apopper@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Arthur N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Popper
authors.affiliation: Loughine Limited, Kincraig, Blairs, Aberdeen, AB12 5YT, UK. a.hawkins@btconnect.com.
authors.forename: Anthony D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.affiliation: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA. rfay44@aol.com.
authors.forename: Richard R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Fay
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059001:Aquatic Organisms / Q000502:physiology*; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D013018:Sound Spectrography
keywords: Auditory evoked potential; Auditory sensitivity; Hearing