Department of Audiology Faculty Articles

Rapid threshold estimation using the "chained-stimuli" technique for auditory brain stem response measurement.

ISSN

0196-0202

Publication Date

8-1-1991

Keywords

Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Audiometry, Evoked Response, Auditory Threshold, Automatic Data Processing, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem, Female, Humans, Male, Reaction Time, Time Factors

Abstract

The "chained-stimuli" technique for rapid auditory brain stem response (ABR) threshold estimation involves lengthening the averaging time window and presenting a series ("chain") of click stimuli. Each stimulus chain contains, in addition to a silent interval, click stimuli of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 dB nHL that are separated by 10 msec intervals. Using this method, the single averaged response to the chained-stimulus contains up to seven individual ABRs. The responses elicited by each level of click stimulus within the chain can be analyzed separately. In this study, chained-stimuli ABR threshold estimations for normal hearers were essentially equivalent to those obtained using an automated conventional ABR method. The data for a seven point latency-intensity function using the chained-stimuli technique were obtained in a mean time of only 8 min per ear.

DOI

10.1097/00003446-199206000-00005

Volume

12

Issue

4

First Page

229

Last Page

234

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

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