The audiogram is a behavioral test rooted in a century of psychoacoustics

Evidence

The fields of audiology and psychoacoustics are intertwined. Audiometric testing originated directly from the field of psychoacoustics, and early audiologists and otologists worked closely with the early psychoacousticians in developing tools for audiological assessment. In some sense we can consider every audiologist to be a psychoacoustician. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is evident in the audiogram — a behavioral assessment of auditory abilities. The audiogram, which relates the ability to detect a sound to the frequency of that sound, forms the core of audiological assessment. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 32

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s clinical/psychoacoustic background and the stated goal of understanding normal vs. impaired hearing perception.