Effect of a Pretest Listening Exposure on the Ascending‐Descending Gap at Most Comfortable Loudness Levels
作者:
Natan Baurnan,
Ira Ventry,
期刊:
Ear and Hearing
(OVID Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 2
页码: 102-103
ISSN:0196-0202
年代: 1983
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The effect of approach mode (ascending versus descending, A-D) on comfortable loudness was determined for a 1000 Hz pure tone using Bekesy audiometry. Two groups (experimental and control) of 10 normal-hearing young adult subjects measured their most comfortable loudness (MCL) levels pre-and post-treatment. The experimental group received a treatment of a listening exposure to a 70 dB intensity range before the test. The results demonstrated a statistically significant change of the A-D gap in the experimental group while the A-D gap for the control group remained essentially unchanged. It is proposed that MCL is underestimated in the ascending approach and overestimated on the descending testing, which results in the A-D gap. In addition, the results demonstrate the importance of the procedures used in research and clinic of the MCL.
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