Equivalence and test–retest reproducibility of conventional and extended-high-frequency audiometric thresholds obtained using pure-tone and narrow-band-noise stimuli

Behavioral responses of 144 healthy neonates to actual and simulated presentations of three different high-frequency sounds of 85 dB SPL were studied. Stimuli were a narrow-band noise centered at 2000 Hz, a narrow-band noise centered at 3150 Hz, and a pure tone increasing and decreasing in frequency between 2000 and 4000 Hz. A masking noise which prevented knowledge of stimulus events was presented to one member of each observer pair. Results indicated that an observer’s judgments of infant behavior may be significantly influenced by knowledge of stimulus events. More responses were observed with the narrow-band noise centered at 2000 Hz; the most frequently observed responses were strong whole-body movements. A decrement in response strength tended to occur with repeated stimulation. Neither positive nor false positive responses were related to sex, anomalies, gestation period, birth weight, age at test, or body temperature. The inherent complexities of infant screening are discussed in relation to a signal detection paradigm.

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Masking of narrow‐band noise by pure tone

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.1914146 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 56 (S1) ◽

pp. S37-S37

Author(s):

I. M. Young ◽

C. H. Wenner

Keyword(s):

Pure Tone ◽

Narrow Band ◽

Narrow Band Noise ◽

Band Noise

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Comparing pure tone and narrow band noise to measure tonal tinnitus pitch-match frequency

10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.06.023 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Daniela Korth ◽

Andreas Wollbrink ◽

Cosima Lukas ◽

Daniela Ivansic ◽

Orlando Guntinas-Lichius ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pure Tone ◽

Narrow Band ◽

Narrow Band Noise ◽

Band Noise

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Narrow-Band Noise Audiometry for Hard-to-Test Patients

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.1301.74 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 74-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jay W. Sanders ◽

Anne Forrest Josey

Keyword(s):

Pure Tone ◽

Narrow Band ◽

Pure Tone Audiometry ◽

Mentally Retarded ◽

Noise Band ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Hearing Sensitivity ◽

Narrow Band Noise ◽

Band Noise ◽

Listening Task

This study investigated the applicability, validity and reliability of narrow bands of white noise as test stimuli for obtaining audiograms under earphones with hard-to-test patients. The noise bands used were those produced by a commercially available narrow-band masking noise generator. The noise bands were calibrated re the 1964 ISO standard for pure tones with a group of normal hearers. Test results for a group of hearing-impaired children and for a group of mentally retarded children suggest that validity and reliability are better for noise-band audiometry than for pure-tone assessment in such subjects. The results with the mentally retarded group suggest that the task of attending to narrow-band noise stimuli is easier than the pure-tone listening task and is therefore applicable with a larger population of hard-to-test patients than is pure-tone audiometry. The noise-band procedure retains the advantages of pure tone audiometry in that it can be used as a means of monaural assessment of hearing sensitivity by frequency; and, like pure-tone audiometry, it tests functional hearing rather than peripheral sensitivity.

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