Aural Acoustic Stapedius-Muscle Reflex Threshold Procedures to Test Human Infants and Adults

• Published in: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 65 - 88
• Main Authors: Keefe, Douglas H., Feeney, M. Patrick, Hunter, Lisa L., Fitzpatrick, Denis F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.02.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Auditory Threshold; Hearing; Hearing Loss, Conductive - physiopathology; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Otorhinolaryngology; Reflex, Acoustic - physiology; Research Article; acoustic stapedius reflex threshold; wideband; absorbed sound power; newborn hearing

Power-based procedures are described to measure acoustic stapedius-muscle reflex threshold and supra-threshold responses in human adult and infant ears at frequencies from 0.2 to 8 kHz. The stimulus set included five clicks in which four pulsed activators were placed between each pair of clicks, wit...