Reported BMLD reductions tied to hearing loss may actually stem from aging

Evidence

Many studies have shown that BMLDs are reduced for people with cochlear hearing loss, but again the results are generally confounded with the effects of age. More research is needed to establish the extent to which BMLDs are affected by hearing loss per se . — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 820

Categorization

• QUESTION: A clean experimental design separating age from hearing loss on BMLDs remains an open problem worth following in later literature.