Temporal Ordering and Auditory Resolution in Individuals with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Adriana Neves de Andrade; Milaine Dominici Sanfins; Magdalena Beata Skarzynska; Piotr Henryk Skarzynski; Daniela Gil

doi:10.1055/s-0042-1759748

International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, Table of Contents

CC BY 4.0 · Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2024; 28(01): e122-e128
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1759748

Original Research

Temporal Ordering and Auditory Resolution in Individuals with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Authors

Adriana Neves de Andrade

¹Departament of Speech Therapy, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Milaine Dominici Sanfins

²Postgraduate Program in Audiology, Albert Einstein Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

³Department of Teleaudiology and Screening, World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Kajetany, Poland
Magdalena Beata Skarzynska

⁴Department of Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

⁵Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Sensory Organs, Kajetany, Poland

⁶Department of Hearing, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, World Hearing Center, Kajetany, Poland

⁷Department of Hearing, Center of Hearing Speech Medincus, Kajetany, Poland
Piotr Henryk Skarzynski

³Department of Teleaudiology and Screening, World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Kajetany, Poland

⁵Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Sensory Organs, Kajetany, Poland

⁸Department of Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

⁹Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Daniela Gil

¹Departament of Speech Therapy, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Abstract

Introduction Peripheral hearing loss, besides causing inadequate auditory input, can lead to distortions in the tonotopic auditory map and reorganization of neural networks. Therefore, the processing of temporal aspects of a sound stimulus and, consequently, the effectiveness of human communication can be negatively impacted.

Objective To test the temporal ordering and auditory resolution of people with mild and moderate sensorineural hearing loss and to compare them with the those of people with normal hearing.

Methods A total of 19 right-handed individuals aged 16 to 59 years with mild to moderate postlingually acquired symmetric bilateral sensorineural hearing loss participated in the study. They were submitted to frequency and duration pattern tests and a random gap detection test.

Results The mean correct response rate in the frequency pattern test was of 66.3%, and, in the duration pattern test, 71.7%. The mean threshold in the random gap detection test was of 14.1 ms. A comparison with the criteria established for normal subjects without peripheral hearing loss revealed that more than half the subjects had abnormal results in the temporal ordering test, while a smaller fraction had reduced temporal resolution.

Conclusions The performance of the subjects with acquired sensorineural hearing loss was poorer than that of the participants without peripheral hearing loss. Their results on the temporal ordering test were also poorer than in the temporal resolution test, demonstrating the importance of analyzing both these auditory skills in people with peripheral hearing loss.

Keywords

hearing - hearing tests - auditory perception - sensorineural hearing loss - time perception - auditory perceptual disorders

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