%0 Journal Article
%T Using Auditory Steady-State Responses for Measuring Hearing Protector Occlusion Effect
%A Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Laville
%A Olivier Valentin
%J Archive of "Noise & Health".
%D 2017
%R 10.4103/nah.NAH_13_17
%X The currently available methods for measuring the occlusion effect (OE) of hearing protection devices (HPDs) have limitations. Objective microphonic measurements do not assess bone-conducted sounds directly transmitted to the cochlea. Psychophysical measurements at threshold are biased due to the low-frequency masking effects from test participants¡¯ physiological noise and the variability of measurements based on subjective responses. An auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) procedure is used as a technique that might overcome these limitations
%K Auditory steady-state responses
%K hearing protection devices
%K occlusion effect
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771060/