A forced-choice adaptive procedure for measuring auditory thresholds in children |
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Authors: | William A. Yost |
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Affiliation: | 1. Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University, 60626, Chicago, Illinois
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Abstract: | A modification of the two-down/one-up tracking procedure was used to estimate thresholds of audibility in 46 children (ages 3 to 6 years) and 10 adults. A two-alternative forced-choice version (26 children, 5 adults) of this method was successful in estimating thresholds of audibility in 5-year-olds, but not in 3- and 4-year-olds. A single-interval version of the procedure was successful in estimating thresholds of audibility for all the children. Measures from the children of between- and within-subjects variability, psychometric functions, and response bias all indicate that the procedure enables one to estimate thresholds that are in close agreement with those obtained from adults and with results of other investigators. |
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