Lack of association between otoacoustic emissions and hearing difficulty in subjects with normal hearing thresholds

M E Lutman; G H Saunders

doi:10.1121/1.404050

Lack of association between otoacoustic emissions and hearing difficulty in subjects with normal hearing thresholds

M E Lutman, G H Saunders

Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience (L5)

University of Maryland at College Park

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Abstract

Evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAE) are a sensitive indicator of subtle cochlear damage and hence might explain why some people complain of excessive difficulty understanding speech in a background of noise, despite having normal hearing thresholds. This phenomenon has been termed "Obscure Auditory Dysfunction" (OAD). Recorded EOAE waveforms from a group of 50 OAD patients were compared with those from a group of 50 matched controls. No significant difference could be found between the two groups across a range of objective and subjective descriptors of the EOAEs. Any cochlear component of OAD does not appear to affect the function of the outer hair cells sufficiently to modify EOAEs materially.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1184-1185
Number of pages	2
Journal	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume	92
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1121/1.404050
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 1992

Keywords

Auditory Threshold/physiology
Case-Control Studies
Cochlear Microphonic Potentials/physiology
Ear Canal/physiopathology
Hair Cells, Auditory/physiopathology
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/diagnosis
Humans
Pitch Discrimination/physiology
Speech Perception/physiology

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Lack of association between otoacoustic emissions and hearing difficulty in subjects with normal hearing thresholds

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