A forced-choice adaptive procedure for measuring auditory thresholds in children

Yost, William A.

doi:10.3758/bf03205369

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“…This procedure measures the minimum excursion in frequency that a listener can detect. FMDT was measured using a 3-alternative forced-choice (3AFC) adaptive procedure (Yost 1978; Gelfand 1982). For a 3AFC, three intervals were presented with only one interval containing the target stimulus; in this case, one interval contained an FM tone (AudioLab MATLAB; developed by Lopez-Poveda).…”

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Understanding Self-reported Hearing Disability in Adults With Normal Hearing

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Objectives: Despite a diagnosis of normal hearing, many people experience hearing disability (HD) in their everyday lives. This study assessed the ability of a number of demographic and auditory variables to explain and predict self-reported HD in people regarded as audiologically healthy via audiometric thresholds.Design: One-hundred eleven adults (ages 19 to 74) with clinically normal hearing (i.e., audiometric thresholds ≤25 dB HL at all octave and interoctave frequencies between 0.25 and 8 kHz and bilaterally symmetric hearing) were asked to complete the 12-item version of the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12) as a measure of selfreported HD. Patient history and a number of standard and expanded measures of hearing were assessed in a multivariate regression analysis to predict SSQ12 score. Patient history included age, sex, history of noise exposure, and tinnitus. Hearing-related measures included audiometry at standard and extended high frequencies, word recognition, otoacoustic emissions, auditory brainstem response, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and FM detection threshold.Results: History of impulse noise exposure, speech-intelligibility index, and FM detection threshold accurately predicted SSQ12 and were able to account for 40% of the SSQ12 score. These three measures were also able to predict whether participants self-reported HD with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 86%. Conclusions:Although participant audiometric thresholds were within normal limits, higher thresholds, history of impulse noise exposure, and FM detection predicted self-reported HD.

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“…In addition to audiometric thresholds, a three-alternative forced choice (3AFC) adaptive procedure was used to determined pure-tone thresholds in quiet (TIQ) at 1.5 and 4 kHz. This method mitigates some biases known to occur in standard audiometry such as the interval bias: entrainment to the stimulus interval; and effects of age: older people are more likely to wait to respond until positive they heard the tone (Yost, 1978;Gelfand, 1982). For a 3AFC, three intervals were presented with only one interval containing the target stimulus; in this case two intervals were silent and one interval contained a pure-tone (AudioLab MATLAB; developed by Lopez-Poveda).…”

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Examining physiological and perceptual consequences of noise exposure

Kamerer

Kopun

Fultz

et al. 2019

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The consequences of noise exposure on the auditory system are not entirely understood. In animals, noise exposure causes selective synaptopathy-an uncoupling of auditory nerve fibers from sensory cells-mostly in fibers that respond to high sound levels. Synaptopathy can be measured physiologically in animals, but a direct relationship between noise exposure and synaptopathy in humans has yet to be proven. Sources of variability, such as age, indirect measures of noise exposure, and comorbid auditory disorders, obfuscate attempts to find concrete relationships between noise exposure, synaptopathy, and perceptual consequences. This study adds to the ongoing effort by examining relationships between noise exposure, auditory brainstem response (ABR) amplitudes, and speech perception in adults of various ages and audiometric thresholds and a subset of younger adults with clinically normal hearing. Regression models including noise exposure, age, hearing thresholds, and sex as covariates were compared to find a best-fitting model of toneburst ABR wave I amplitude at two frequencies and word recognition performance in three listening conditions: background noise, time compression, and time compression with reverberation. The data suggest the possibility of detecting synaptopathy in younger adults using physiological measures, but that age and comorbid hearing disorders may hinder attempts to assess noise-induced synaptopathy.

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“…Very few developmental studies of other types of psychoacoustic performance are available, and those that exist demonstrate age-related improvements (e.g., Elliott & Katz, 1980c;Maxon, 1977;Yoneshige & Elliott, 1981;Yost, 1978). Very few developmental studies of other types of psychoacoustic performance are available, and those that exist demonstrate age-related improvements (e.g., Elliott & Katz, 1980c;Maxon, 1977;Yoneshige & Elliott, 1981;Yost, 1978).…”

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Adult and Child Discrimination of CV Syllables Differing in Voicing Onset Time

Elliott¹,

Busse²,

Partridge³

et al. 1986

Child Development

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The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether age-related differences would be observed for discrimination of synthesized, 5-formant consonant-vowel syllables that differed in voicing onset time (VOT) of the initial consonant. Just noticeable differences (JNDs) were measured relative to the end points of the stimulus continuum, using a "same"-"different," adaptive procedure with trial-by-trial feedback/reinforcement and "catch" trials, in which members of the stimulus pair were identical syllables. 6-8-year-old children required significantly longer VOTs for syllabic discrimination than did adults. Adults' JNDs relative to [pa] at the end of the stimulus continuum with longer VOTs were significantly larger than their JNDs relative to [ba], as would be expected on the basis of psychoacoustic considerations, but neither 6-8-nor 8-11-year-old children showed this trend. Performance on "catch" trials for both groups of children was significantly poorer than for adults. Outcomes corresponded to results of other investigations that have reported that children require more acoustic information than adults to achieve the same performance criterion.

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A forced-choice adaptive procedure for measuring auditory thresholds in children

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

Understanding Self-reported Hearing Disability in Adults With Normal Hearing

Understanding Self-reported Hearing Disability in Adults With Normal Hearing

Examining physiological and perceptual consequences of noise exposure

Adult and Child Discrimination of CV Syllables Differing in Voicing Onset Time

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