Amineh Koravand1, Benoît Jutras, Nada Roumy. 1. Ecole d'orthophonie et d'audiologie, Université de Montréal and Centre de recherche, CHU Sainte-Justine, Canada. amineh.koravand@umontreal.ca
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was to assess the influence of peripheral hearing loss (abnormal encoding of the auditory system) on auditory information processing. We examine the ability of children with and without hearing loss to correctly reproduce sequence blocks of acoustic stimuli that vary in type, number, and temporal ordering. METHODS: Twenty-six children between 8 and 12 years old, 13 with hearing loss and 13 without hearing loss, participated in the study. They performed an auditory temporal ordering task (auditory sequential organization task) by recalling two, three, and five verbal (/ba/-/da/and/a/-/da/) and nonverbal stimuli (acoustic transformation of /ba/-/da/) with a fixed interstimulus interval (ISI) of 425 ms. They also reproduced sequences of two elements with variables ISI, 20, and 1000 ms. RESULTS: Children with hearing loss had significantly lower correct responses than children with normal hearing for sequences of two, three, and five verbal stimuli with similar and complex acoustic features (/ba/-/da/), for an ISI of 425 ms. There was no significant difference in performance between children with hearing loss and their peers with normal hearing on nonverbal sequences or verbal sequences with different and complex acoustic features (/a/-/da/) when ISI was 425 ms. Furthermore, children with hearing loss performed significantly lower than their peers on the three groups of stimuli when ISI was 20 ms between two stimuli. CONCLUSION: Peripheral hearing loss can influence auditory information processing in the central auditory system. Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was to assess the influence of peripheral hearing loss (abnormal encoding of the auditory system) on auditory information processing. We examine the ability of children with and without hearing loss to correctly reproduce sequence blocks of acoustic stimuli that vary in type, number, and temporal ordering. METHODS: Twenty-six children between 8 and 12 years old, 13 with hearing loss and 13 without hearing loss, participated in the study. They performed an auditory temporal ordering task (auditory sequential organization task) by recalling two, three, and five verbal (/ba/-/da/and/a/-/da/) and nonverbal stimuli (acoustic transformation of /ba/-/da/) with a fixed interstimulus interval (ISI) of 425 ms. They also reproduced sequences of two elements with variables ISI, 20, and 1000 ms. RESULTS:Children with hearing loss had significantly lower correct responses than children with normal hearing for sequences of two, three, and five verbal stimuli with similar and complex acoustic features (/ba/-/da/), for an ISI of 425 ms. There was no significant difference in performance between children with hearing loss and their peers with normal hearing on nonverbal sequences or verbal sequences with different and complex acoustic features (/a/-/da/) when ISI was 425 ms. Furthermore, children with hearing loss performed significantly lower than their peers on the three groups of stimuli when ISI was 20 ms between two stimuli. CONCLUSION:Peripheral hearing loss can influence auditory information processing in the central auditory system. Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.