Recruitment makes loudness grow faster in impaired ears than normal ears.

Evidence

Figure 19.1 Conceptual loudness-matching functions that visualize the SPL needed for a hearingimpaired person to achieve equal loudness as a normally hearing individual: normal hearing, conductive hearing loss, and cochlear hearing loss (recruitment due to outer hair cell damage). Adapted from Moore (2007). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2657

Categorization

• DEFINE: Briefly clarifies that ‘recruitment’ is the term for abnormal loudness growth from outer hair cell damage.