دانلود کتاب Audiological Research Over Six Decades

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Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. The Early Years
A Diagnostic Challenge
Professor Doctor Eberhart Lüscher
The Quantal Psychophysical Method
The SISI Test
Abnormal Auditory Adaptation
The Békésy Audiogram
Speech Audiometry
Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI)
Brainstem Versus Temporal Lobe
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2. Immittance Audiometry
The Tympanogram
The Stapedius Muscle Reflex
Reflex Averaging
Other Reflex Oddities
An Educational Adventure
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3. Auditory Processing Disorder
The Birth of APD
The Italian Pioneers
Early Efforts in the U.S.
The Other Side of the Coin
An Account of an Interesting Patient
Medical Report
Neuropsychological Examination
Audiological Examination
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4. A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
An Important Point
History and Medical Findings
First Admission
Second Admission
Basic Testing
Basic Audiometry
Some Psychoacoustic Measures
Auditory Localization in Space
Final Thoughts
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5. Binaural Hearing Aids
An Early Study
But Is the Group Representative of Everyone in It?
Binaural Interference
A Very Intact Nonagenerian
Can We Explain AK’s Findings by Invoking a Relevant Cognitive Deficit?
A Possible Explanation
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6. Cued Listening
Group Results
Three Illustrative Individual Patients
Last Thoughts
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7. Aging and Gender Effects
Can Speech Understanding Problems in Elderly Persons Be Explained by the Audiogram?
Auditory Processing Disorder and Dichotic Listening
Auditory Processing Disorder Versus Cognitive Decline
A Longitudinal Case Study
Some Gender Differences
Another Gender Effect — The Shape of the Audiogram
Overview
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8. Auditory Event-Related Potentials to Words
Waveforms
The Importance of Forcing a Decision
The Framework of an Auditory Event-Related Potential Procedure (AERP)
The Late Positive Component (LPC)
The Right Ear Advantage
But What About the Nontarget Words?
Processing Negativity (PN)
Repeating Words Back Versus Making Decisions About Them
More PN Examples
A Case of Multiple Sclerosis
A Clarification
Final Thoughts
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9. A Twin Study
Basic Audiometry Behavioral Psychoacoustic Measures of Auditory
Processing
Standardized Cognitive/Linguistic Evaluations
Activation Patterns
Dichotic Listening
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
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10. Odds and Ends
A Visit to Montreal
“Normal Audiometric Findings”
Simian Surgery
A Researcher’s Dream
A Voice From the Past
A Herculean Effort
Finis
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Index