TY - JOUR
T1 - The listening in spatialized noise test
T2 - Normative data for children
AU - Cameron, Sharon
AU - Dillon, Harvey
AU - Newall, Philip
PY - 2006/2/1
Y1 - 2006/2/1
N2 - The Listening in Spatialized Noise test (LISN®) produces a three-dimensional auditory environment under headphones, using only a PC and an audiometer, and was designed to provide an ecologically valid assessment of auditory figure-ground skills in children. The listener is required to indicate the intelligibility level of a story presented at 0° azimuth, in the presence of distracter sentences simultaneously presented at either 0° or ±90° azimuth. Various measures assess the extent to which either spatial, vocal, or spatial and vocal cues combined, increase a listener's ability to comprehend the story, without being affected by differences between participants in variables such as linguistic skills. There was a trend of improved performance with increasing age for 48 normally hearing seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds, and sixteen adults. Whereas some significant differences were found between adults and children, there were no significant differences in performance between the seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds on any measure, and no significant gender or practice effects were observed. Future studies on children with suspected auditory processing disorder were considered warranted.
AB - The Listening in Spatialized Noise test (LISN®) produces a three-dimensional auditory environment under headphones, using only a PC and an audiometer, and was designed to provide an ecologically valid assessment of auditory figure-ground skills in children. The listener is required to indicate the intelligibility level of a story presented at 0° azimuth, in the presence of distracter sentences simultaneously presented at either 0° or ±90° azimuth. Various measures assess the extent to which either spatial, vocal, or spatial and vocal cues combined, increase a listener's ability to comprehend the story, without being affected by differences between participants in variables such as linguistic skills. There was a trend of improved performance with increasing age for 48 normally hearing seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds, and sixteen adults. Whereas some significant differences were found between adults and children, there were no significant differences in performance between the seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds on any measure, and no significant gender or practice effects were observed. Future studies on children with suspected auditory processing disorder were considered warranted.
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U2 - 10.1080/14992020500377931
DO - 10.1080/14992020500377931
M3 - Article
C2 - 16566248
AN - SCOPUS:29244481514
SN - 1499-2027
VL - 45
SP - 99
EP - 108
JO - International Journal of Audiology
JF - International Journal of Audiology
IS - 2
ER -