Etude clinique des décalages de seuil vocal dans le bruit

The goal of this study was to determine the extent to which the difficulty frequently experienced by hearing-impaired listeners in understanding noisy speech can be clinically described in terms of the auditory site of lesion. To this end, shifts of speech reception threshold in noise, using standardized franco-quebecois bisyllabic word lists, were obtained from noise-exposed workers and compared to Plomp's model to ascertain content validity. Shifts resulted from monaural listening to a broad-band speech spectrum noise held constant at 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio. In this manner, increasing the presentation levels of both speech and noise was expected to progressively minimize the contribution of Plomp's class A attenuation component to speech hearing loss and eventually show an unequivocal manifestation of its distortion component (class D speech hearing loss). Listeners were 457 noise-exposed workers giving a total of 914 observations. Rejection of those ears with suspected middle-ear pathology led to a...

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