This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Deborah Hayes, MA; James Jerger, PhD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1978;104(4):183-185.

Abstract
• The respiration of ten adults with normal hearing was monitored to determine how well changes in respiration could be detected after auditory stimulation. Three judges used two methods of response scoring. The first was without knowledge of signal presentation, and the second was with knowledge of signal presentation. Judges detected the presence of respiratory responses not only during signal presentations (hits) but also during silent intervals (false alarms). Hits and false alarms co-varied in a manner predicted by the theory of signal detectability. A low false alarm rate could be purchased only at the expense of a low hit rate. The implications of this finding for the clinical efficacy of respiration audiometry are considered.

(Arch Otolaryngol 104:183-185, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 27, 1977.

Reprint requests to The Audiology Service, Neurosensory Center of Houston, NA 200, 6501 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030 (Ms Hayes).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?