Research Article

Clinical Use of Aided Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials as a Measure of Physiological Detection or Physiological Discrimination

Table 2

Three recordings of hearing aid output. Specific characteristics of the three hearing aid recordings used in this study to elicit aided CAEPs.

Hearing AidGain at 1000 Hz1Input2Output SNR3

Recording 1A30 dB SPL25 dB SPL11 dB
Recording 2B30 dB SPL25 dB SPL8 dB
Recording 3B10 dB SPL45 dB SPL23 dB

1Gain with a 45 dB SPL input (electroacoustically verified).
2Input: input to hearing aid microphones in the sound field.
3Output SNR: difference between hearing-aid-processed signal and noise at 1000 Hz (1/3 octave band).