Discrimination of Level Differences by Hearing-Impaired Patients
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Audiology
- Vol. 20 (6), 488-502
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00206098109072717
Abstract
A technique for measuring the discrimination of level differences with pulsed tones is proposed. Alternating tone bursts, each of 500 ms duration but of different sound pressure levels, are separated by 200-ms pauses. The advantages of this method in comparison with traditional methods (SISI test, Lüscher-Zwislocki test) which use modulated tones are that level discrimination is independent of frequency and that it shows very little dependence on sensation level. With this technique, the level discrimination of patients with conductive hearing loss, ‘toxic’ hearing impairment, noise-induced hearing loss, sudden deafness, presbyacusis, Meniere's disease, and retrocochlear impairment was determined and compared to the results obtained in normal ears. Using the level discrimination test proposed, retrocochlear disorders can be diagnosed with great reliability. Nous présentons une technique pour mesurer le seuil différentiel d'intensité en utilisant des sons pulsés d'une durée de 500 ms, l'intervalle interstimulus étant de 200 ms. Par rapport aux méthodes classiques utilisant des sons modulés (Lüscher-Zwislocki, SISI), notre technique a l'avantage de donner un seuil indépendant de la fréquence et dépendant très peu de l'intensité. Nous rapportons nos résultats concernant des sujets normaux, des patients souffrant d'atteintes de la transmission, de surdités secondaires à des intoxications, de surdités produites par des traumatismes sonores, de surdités brutales, de presbyacousie, de maladie de Menière et d'atteintes rétrocochléaires; notre technique s'est montrée particulièrement efficace dans ces derniers cas.Keywords
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