A comparison of gap‐detection thresholds through audition and touch in listeners with real and simulated hearing impairment.

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 2721-2721
Author(s):  
Charlotte M. Reed ◽  
Joseph G. Desloge ◽  
Zachary D. Perez ◽  
Lorraine A. Delhorne ◽  
Louis D. Braida
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Gap Detection ◽  
Detection Thresholds

scholarly journals Audiograms, gap detection thresholds, and frequency difference limens in cannabinoid receptor 1 knockout mice

2016 ◽  
Vol 332 ◽  
pp. 217-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina L. Toal ◽  
Kelly E. Radziwon ◽  
David P. Holfoth ◽  
Matthew A. Xu-Friedman ◽  
Micheal L. Dent
Keyword(s):  
Knockout Mice ◽  
Cannabinoid Receptor ◽  
Frequency Difference ◽  
Gap Detection ◽  
Cannabinoid Receptor 1 ◽  
Detection Thresholds

Correlations among within-Channel and between-Channel Auditory Gap-Detection Thresholds in Normal Listeners

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p5116 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis P Phillips ◽  
Jennifer C Smith
Keyword(s):  
Gap Detection ◽  
Detection Thresholds

scholarly journals Effects of Various Extents of High-Frequency Hearing Loss on Speech Recognition and Gap Detection at Low Frequencies in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Bei Li ◽  
Yang Guo ◽  
Guang Yang ◽  
Yanmei Feng ◽  
Shankai Yin
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Hearing Threshold ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Gap Detection ◽  
Detection Thresholds ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Compressed Speech

This study explored whether the time-compressed speech perception varied with the degree of hearing loss in high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss (HF SNHL) individuals. 65 HF SNHL individuals with different cutoff frequencies were recruited and further divided into mildly, moderately, and/or severely affected subgroups in terms of the averaged thresholds of all frequencies exhibiting hearing loss. Time-compressed speech recognition scores under both quiet and noisy conditions and gap detection thresholds within low frequencies that had normal thresholds were obtained from all patients and compared with data from 11 age-matched individuals with normal hearing threshold at all frequencies. Correlations of the time-compressed speech recognition scores with the extents of HF SNHL and with the 1 kHz gap detection thresholds were studied across all participants. We found that the time-compressed speech recognition scores were significantly affected by and correlated with the extents of HF SNHL. The time-compressed speech recognition scores also correlated with the 1 kHz gap detection thresholds except when the compression ratio of speech was 0.8 under quiet condition. Above all, the extents of HF SNHL were significantly correlated with the 1 kHz gap thresholds.

Performance of Some of the Better Cochlear-Implant Patients

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 887-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Tyler ◽  
Brian C. J. Moore ◽  
Francis K. Kuk
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Scaling Analysis ◽  
Gap Detection ◽  
Environmental Sound ◽  
Sound Perception ◽  
Detection Thresholds ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Wide Range

The main purpose of this study was to provide an independent corroboration of open-set word recognition in some of the better cochlear-implant patients. These included the Chorimac, Nucleus (one group from the U.S.A. and one group from Hannover, Germany), Symbion, Duren/Cologne and 3M/Vienna implants. Three experiments are reported: (1) word recognition in word lists and in sentences; (2) environmental sound perception, and (3) gap detection. On word recognition, the scores of 6 Chorimac patients averaged 2.5% words and 0.7% words in sentences correct in the French tests. In the German tests, the scores averaged 17% words and 10% words in sentences for 10 Duren/Cologne patients, 15% words and 16% words in sentences for 9 3M/Vienna patients, and 10% words and 16% words in sentences (3% to 26%) for 10 Nucleus/Hannover patients. In the English tests, the scores averaged 11% words and 29.6% words in sentences for l0 Nucleus-U.S.A. patients, and 13.7% words and 35.7% words in sentences for the 9 Symbion patients. The ability to recognize recorded environmental sounds was measured with a closed set of 18 sounds. Performance averaged 23% correct for Chorimac patients, 41% correct for 3M/Vienna patients, 44% correct for Nucleus/Hannover patients, 21% correct for Duren/Cologne patients, 58% correct for Nucleus/U.S.A. patients, and 83% correct for Symbion patients. A multidimensional scaling analysis suggested that patients were, in part, utilizing information about the envelope and about the periodic/aperiodic nature of some of the sounds. Gap detection thresholds with a one-octave wide noise centered at 500 Hz varied widely among patients. Typically, patients with gap thresholds less than 40 ms showed a wide range of performance on speech perception tasks, whereas patients with gap-detection thresholds greater than 40 ms showed poor word recognition skills.

scholarly journals Effect of stimulus polarity on detection thresholds in cochlear implant users: relationships with average threshold, gap detection, and rate discrimination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Carlyon ◽  
Stefano Cosentino ◽  
John M. Deeks ◽  
Wendy Parkinson ◽  
Julie A. Arenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
High Amplitude ◽  
Gap Detection ◽  
Detection Thresholds ◽  
Polarity Effect ◽  
Modelling Studies ◽  
Neural Survival ◽  
Rate Discrimination ◽  
Central High ◽  
Anodic Stimulation

AbstractPrevious psychophysical and modelling studies suggest that cathodic stimulation by a cochlear implant (CI) may preferentially activate the peripheral processes of the auditory nerve, whereas anodic stimulation may preferentially activate the central axons. Because neural degeneration typically starts with loss of the peripheral processes, lower thresholds for cathodic than for anodic stimulation may indicate good local neural survival. We measured thresholds for 99-pulse-per-second trains of triphasic (TP) pulses where the central high-amplitude phase was either anodic (TP-A) or cathodic (TP-C). Thresholds were obtained in monopolar mode from four or five electrodes and a total of eight ears from subjects implanted with the Advanced Bionics CI. When between–subject differences were removed, there was a modest but significant correlation between the polarity effect (TP-C threshold minus TP-A threshold) and the average of TP-C and TP-A thresholds, consistent with the hypothesis that a large polarity effect corresponds to good neural survival. When data were averaged across electrodes for each subject, relatively low thresholds for TP-C correlated with a high “upper limit” (the pulse rate up to which pitch continues to increase) from a previous study [Cosentino S, Carlyon RP, Deeks JM, Parkinson W, Bierer JA (2016) Rate discrimination, gap detection and ranking of temporal pitch in cochlear implant users. J Assoc Otolaryngol 17:371– 382]. Overall the results provide modest indirect support for the hypothesis that the polarity effect provides an estimate of local neural survival.

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