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1Veterans Administration Medical Center, Long Beach, California.
Abstract:
This study investigated the accuracy of threshold estimates using the 40-Hz Potential and the SN10 in the presence of elevated low-frequency thresholds. In Experiment 1, subjects with normal hearing were evaluated with ipsilateral low-pass masking to elevate low-frequency thresholds and in Experiment 2, subjects with low-frequency sensory hearing losses were evaluated. The stimuli were 500-, 1500-, and 3,000-Hz tone pips. The 40-Hz Potential and the SN10 were equally good predictors of the behavioral threshold when the low-frequency, pure-tone thresholds were elevated.
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