TY - GEN
T1 - Low-frequency hearing thresholds of young and older adults
T2 - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007
AU - Kurakata, Kenji
AU - Mizunami, Tazu
AU - Sato, Hiroshi
AU - Inukai, Yukio
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - The hearing threshold for low-frequency tones of 10-160 Hz was measured in a pressure field to investigate the effects of aging on hearing sensitivity. Participants were young adults of 19-25 years old and older adults of 60 years and over. Measurement results showed that the older listeners had a higher threshold than the young listeners on average. However, the difference of median thresholds between these two groups was 5-10 dB at every measurement frequency, which was a much smaller difference than that observed for high-frequency tones around 2,000 Hz and above. Comparison of the low-frequency thresholds and audiograms of the listeners indicated almost no correlation between these two. These experimental results suggest that older people retain good hearing sensitivity in the low-frequency region compared to their degraded sensitivity at higher frequencies. The second report of the study presented at Low Frequency 2006 in Bristol, UK: the number of participants was increased.
AB - The hearing threshold for low-frequency tones of 10-160 Hz was measured in a pressure field to investigate the effects of aging on hearing sensitivity. Participants were young adults of 19-25 years old and older adults of 60 years and over. Measurement results showed that the older listeners had a higher threshold than the young listeners on average. However, the difference of median thresholds between these two groups was 5-10 dB at every measurement frequency, which was a much smaller difference than that observed for high-frequency tones around 2,000 Hz and above. Comparison of the low-frequency thresholds and audiograms of the listeners indicated almost no correlation between these two. These experimental results suggest that older people retain good hearing sensitivity in the low-frequency region compared to their degraded sensitivity at higher frequencies. The second report of the study presented at Low Frequency 2006 in Bristol, UK: the number of participants was increased.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873962973
SN - 9781605603858
T3 - Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL
SP - 3313
EP - 3320
BT - Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL
Y2 - 28 August 2007 through 31 August 2007
ER -