This study dealt with the relationship between an electrophysiologic response, a psychophysical response, and the perception of loudness. The electrophysiologic response of interest was the auditory brainstem evoked response. The psychophysical response of interest were those aspects of loudness perception related to the process of temporal summation and measured by the technique of loudness balancing. The relationship between these two responses was investigated by manipulating the temporal as well as the intensity characteristics of brief click stimuli used to obtain both responses. It was hypothesized that the auditory brainstem response is not directly related to loudness perception. Brainstem responses elicited with different click stimuli perceived as equally loud were therefore not expected to display similar characteristics. Auditory brainstem responses obtained from eight normal hearing young adult subjects supported this hypothesis. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-02, Section: B, page: 0384. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76048 |
| Contributors | DARLING, RIEKO MARIE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 216 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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