Cochlear emission measurements could aid clinical speech-in-noise diagnosis

Evidence

The results suggest that OAE levels might be used to predict individual differences in more complex target-in-noise listening tasks, even possibly in the diagnosis of speech understanding in specific noise backgrounds. For clinical applications swept frequency SFOAEs might provide a better measure of cochlear fine structure inasmuch as they are less time consuming than SOAE measurements and provide a clearer indication of regions of threshold microstructure and variations in loudness. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5757

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5757