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Auditory evoked potentials: Differences by sex, race, and menstrual cycle and correlations with common psychoacoustical tasks
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0251363 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) and auditory middle-latency responses (AMLRs) to a click stimulus were measured in about 100 subjects. Of interest were the sex differences in those auditory evoked potentials (AEPs), the correlations between the various AEP measures, and the correlations between the AEP measures and measures of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and behavioral performance also measured on the same subjects. Also of interest was how the menstrual cycle affected the various AEP measures. Most ABR measures and several AMLR measures exhibited sex differences, and many of the former were substantial. The sex differences tended to be larger for latency than for amplitude of the waves, and they tended to be larger for a weak click stimulus than for a strong click. The largest sex difference was for Wave-V latency (effect size ~1.2). When subjects were dichotomized into Non-Whites and Whites, the race differences in AEPs were small within sex. However, sex and race interacted so that the sex differences often were larger for the White subjects than for the Non-White subjects, particularly for the latency measures. Contrary to the literature, no AEP measures differed markedly across the menstrual cycle. Correlations between various AEP measures, and between AEP and OAE measures, were small and showed no consistent patterns across sex or race categories. Performance on seven common psychoacoustical tasks was only weakly correlated with individual AEP measures (just as was true for the OAEs also measured on these subjects). AMLR Wave Pa unexpectedly did not show the decrease in latency and increase in amplitude typically observed for AEPs when click level was varied from 40 to 70 dB nHL (normal Hearing Level). For the majority of the measures, the variability of the distribution of scores was greater for the males than for the females.
- Subjects :
- Male
Physiology
Social Sciences
Audiology
01 natural sciences
Race (biology)
Endocrinology
0302 clinical medicine
Hearing
Reproductive Physiology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Electrochemistry
Psychology
Evoked Potentials
010301 acoustics
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Hearing Tests
Software Engineering
Race Factors
Cochlea
Electrophysiology
Chemistry
Hearing level
Inner Ear
Physical Sciences
Auditory Perception
Evoked Potentials, Auditory
Engineering and Technology
Medicine
Female
Sensory Perception
Anatomy
Psychoacoustics
Research Article
Computer and Information Sciences
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Science
Neurophysiology
Stimulus (physiology)
Membrane Potential
Computer Software
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
Audiometry
0103 physical sciences
Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem
Reaction Time
medicine
Humans
Latency (engineering)
Menstrual Cycle
Menstrual cycle
Behavior
Endocrine Physiology
Extramural
Electrode Potentials
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Auditory Threshold
Acoustic Stimulation
Ears
Cognitive Science
Perception
Head
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ead31d9ee1b351ff1f45d5b108cee43b