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The CON-SOT-LOT test for nonorganic hearing loss
J S Martin1, F N Martin, C A Champlin
1Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Division of Audiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
The efficacy of a screening procedure for detecting nonorganic hearing loss using standard audiometric instrumentation was examined. Thirty normal-hearing subjects' responses to continuous and standard and lengthened off-time pulsed tones, using an ascending-descending method, were compared. Subjects were asked to respond to test stimuli in normal-hearing and simulated hearing loss conditions. Data show that there are clinical and statistical differences between subjects' response patterns in the normal-hearing condition as compared to the feigned hearing loss condition. The procedure is offered as a simple method of screening for nonorganic hearing loss.