Audiology is rooted in psychoacoustics and remains founded on it

Evidence

On the whole, psychoacoustics is connected to audiological assessment and treatment in many ways: from providing information that would be useful for counseling patients when they might experience problems listening to the diagnostic tests used regularly within the field. Impairments to perceptual abilities can be expected to lead to impairments in speech perception in natural environments, and psychoacoustics has informed our understanding of the nature of communication difficulties experienced by listeners with sensorineural hearing loss. Further, audiology has its roots in psychoacoustics, and the foundation of psychoacoustics remains an integral component of any diagnostic audiometric assessment. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1775

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1775
• XREF: connects to: Clinical audiology’s testing tools originated from psychoacoustic research