Auditory threshold
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lowest sound intensity or pitch a subject can detect or that can elicit a response.
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- The human fetus in utero is relatively hypoxic and there is evidence that its auditory threshold is also similarly elevated.
- A related and more meaningful measure is the growth rate of DPOAE with stimulus level which appears to steepen as auditory threshold is elevated.
- In this case, auditory threshold is simply a benchmark that equalizes exposures between sub- jects with different hearing sensitivities.
- How- ever, the question of how we link the physiological substrate to absolute auditory threshold is a conceptual matter and well suited to exploration by modeling methods.
- Auditory threshold is not necessarily the best test of deafness for everyone.
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