Research Article

Slow Cortical Potentials and Amplification—Part II: Acoustic Measures

Table 4

ANOVA results for all measures of the long stimulus. Shown are p values of the ANOVA and of the simple main effects, where appropriate.

20 dB gain40 dB gain
Amp 30 msAmp maxRise timeAmp 30 msAmp maxRise time

Main effects
 Hearing aid (HA)p  < 0.001p = 0.656p  < 0.001p  < 0.001p = 0.314p  < 0.001
 Input level (LVL)p  < 0.001p  = 0.005p = 0.424p = 0.027p = 0.298p = 0.016
 HA × LVLp = 0.031p = 0.09p  < 0.001p = 0.091p = 0.107p = 0.029
Simple main effects
 Effect of LVL
  For analogp = 0.023p  = 0.009p = 0.647p = 0.956
p = 0.429
  For digitalAp = 0.006p  = 0.067p = 0.02p = 0.134p = 0.030
  For digitalBp  = 0.002p  = 0.003p = 0.07p = 0.015p = 0.007
  Effect of HA
  At 30 dB SPLp  < 0.001p = 0.457p  < 0.001p  < 0.001p  < 0.001
  At 50 dB SPLp  < 0.001p = 0.377p  < 0.001p  < 0.001p  < 0.001
  At 70 dB SPLp  < 0.001p = 0.97p  < 0.001

Boldface indicates significance at p < .1. *: Indicates the analysis was not necessary.  —: indicates no data collected for those conditions.