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Vol 20 No 1 (1989)
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Binaural summation in normals and sensorineural hearing loss

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Singh, S. V. and H. (1). Binaural summation in normals and sensorineural hearing loss. Journal of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, 20(1), 42-47. Retrieved from http://203.129.241.91/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/769

Abstract

Binaural summation was tested in fifteen normal hearing adults and fifteen subjects with bilateral symmetrical SN loss for 500 Hz & 200 Hz puretones and wideband noise of 500 m sec. duration at O dBSL, 20 dBSL & 40 dBSL. Results indicated thai SN loss group showed significantly less summation than normals
and there was a non-linear increase in summation with increasing frequency and intensity in both groups. A few theoretical explanations and recommendations are suggested.

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