Open AccessReliability of Measures Intended to Assess Threshold-Independent Hearing Disorders
Author(s) -
Aryn M. Kamerer,
Judy G. Kopun,
Sara E. Fultz,
Stephen T. Neely,
Daniel M. Rasetshwane
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000711
Subject(s) - audiology , intraclass correlation , absolute threshold of hearing , audiometry , medicine , audiogram , hearing loss , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Recent animal studies have shown that noise exposure can cause cochlear synaptopathy without permanent threshold shift. Because the noise exposure preferentially damaged auditory nerve fibers that processed suprathreshold sounds (low-spontaneous rate fibers), it has been suggested that synaptopathy may underlie suprathreshold hearing deficits in humans. Recently, several researchers have suggested measures to identify the pathology or pathologies underlying suprathreshold hearing deficits in humans based on results from animal studies; however, the reliability of some of these measures have not been assessed. The purpose of this study was to assess the test-retest reliability of measures that may have the potential to relate suprathreshold hearing deficits to site(s)-of-lesion along the peripheral auditory system in humans.