BMLD as a threshold difference naturally cancels age-related processing efficiency losses.
Evidence
Because the BMLD represents a difference between two thresholds, it has the advantage that differences in processing efficiency across age groups at least partly cancel. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 804
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth checking later whether this cancellation assumption has caveats — differential aging of the two measures being subtracted is a possible confound.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 804
- XREF: connects to: The BMLD arises from subjects using channels where the masker’s interaural effect is reduced