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ArticleTrends in hearing

The Parallel Auditory Brainstem Response.

Melissa J Polonenko, Ross K Maddox

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Article in Trends in hearing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Comparison of Threshold Estimation Using Click and LS CE-Chirp Stimuli with Behavioral Thresholds in Adults with Noise Induced Hearing Loss.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2025
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  15. Enhanced Place Specificity of the Parallel Auditory Brainstem Response: An Electrophysiological Study.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa J PolonenkoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, NY, USA.
Ross K MaddoxDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2668-0238
University of Rochester · US

Funding

Rapid Acquisition of the Frequency-Specific Auditory Brainstem Response Through Parallel Stimulus PresentationR01DC017962 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Ross K Maddox · 2019 to 2026
$3.2M
Visual and auditory perceptual factors affecting spatial release from maskingR00DC014288 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI MADDOX, ROSS K · 2016 to 2018
$743k
NIDCD NIH HHS R00 DC014288NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The frequency-specific tone-evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR) is an indispensable tool in both the audiology clinic and research laboratory. Most frequently, the toneburst ABR is used to estimate hearing thresholds in infants, toddlers, and other patients for whom behavioral testing is not feasible. Therefore, results of the ABR exam form the basis for decisions regarding interventions and hearing habilitation with implications extending far into the child's future. Currently, responses are elicited by periodic sequences of toneburst stimuli presented serially to one ear at a time, which take a long time to measure multiple frequencies and intensities, and provide incomplete information if the infant wakes up early. Here, we describe a new method, the parallel ABR (pABR), which uses randomly timed toneburst stimuli to simultaneously acquire ABR waveforms to five frequencies in both ears. Here, we describe the pABR and quantify its effectiveness in addressing the greatest drawback of current methods: test duration. We show that in adults with normal hearing the pABR yields high-quality waveforms over a range of intensities, with similar morphology to the standard ABR in a fraction of the recording time. Furthermore, longer latencies and smaller amplitudes for low frequencies at a high intensity evoked by the pABR versus serial ABR suggest that responses may have better place specificity due to the masking provided by the other simultaneous toneburst sequences. Thus, the pABR has substantial potential for facilitating faster accumulation of more diagnostic information that is important for timely identification and treatment of hearing loss.

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AdultAuditory ThresholdEvoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain StemFemaleHearingHearing LossHearing TestsHumansMaleTime Factorsassessmentauditory brainstem responseelectroencephalographyevoked potentialsobjective audiometry

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PMID31516096
PMCPMC6852359
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