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The Auditory Brainstem Response And Envelope Following Response: Investigating Within-Subject Variation To Stimulus Polarity, Rebekah Taggart Aug 2016

The Auditory Brainstem Response And Envelope Following Response: Investigating Within-Subject Variation To Stimulus Polarity, Rebekah Taggart

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Though the envelope following response (EFR) has potential to become an effective tool for hearing aid validation, studies have observed a considerable degree of within-subject variation with stimulus polarity that could affect its clinical usefulness. This study investigated whether a relationship exists between the polarity-sensitive variation observed in EFR amplitude and that observed in the latencies of a related neural response, the auditory brainstem response (ABR). Low frequency masked clicks and the dual-f0 stimulus /susaʃi/ were used to evoke alternating polarity ABRs and EFRs, respectively, in 31 normal hearing adults. Maximum and median differences between polarity conditions were calculated. …