Auditory Processing Abilities of Parkinson’s Disease Patients

Table 2

Pearson’s correlation () values for pertinent variables and assessments.

Factor	Covariate	PD group ()		Control group ()
		Pearson’s		Pearson’s
Participants’ age	Pure tone average air conduction hearing threshold (dB HL) in the worst ear	0.383	0.02	0.565	0.0003
	Words in Noise (WIN) test score, right ear
	Words in Noise (WIN) test score, left ear
	Gap in Noise (GIN) detection, left ear
	Dichotic Digits Test (DDT), left ear
	Spatial release from masking test, 45° condition
	RAVLT (total of trials 1 through 5)
Pure tone average (PTA) air conduction hearing threshold (dB HL) in the worst ear	Words in Noise (WIN) test score, right ear
	Words in Noise (WIN) test score, left ear
	Staggered-Spondaic-Word test
	Gap in Noise (GIN) detection, right ear
	Dichotic Digits Test (DDT), right ear
	Spatial release from masking test, 45° condition
	RAVLT (total of trials 1 through 5)
	Hearing Handicap Inventory score