Chirp and Click Evoked Auditory Steady State Responses

Abstract

In this study, Auditory Steady State Responses (ASSR) to 100 microsec clicks and 4 msec cochlear chirps are recorded in adult subjects at repetition rates of 20 to 100Hz in 10 Hz increments, Response characteristics of ASSRs are compared in the frequency domain, Results show that response amplitudes to both stimuli peak in the proximity of 40 Hz and 80 Hz, but chirps generate responses with larger amplitudes at all repetition rates, The responses at 40 Hz repetition rates for both clicks and chirps are larger than the corresponding responses at 80 Hz stimuli in awake adults, The 40 Hz responses, however, show greater variability than the 80 Hz responses depending on the subject's state of consciousness, The predictions of the ASSR waveforms at each repetition rate were then synthesized by superimposing the suitably shifted Middle Latency Response (MLR) waveforms that were recorded during the same session with a stimulus repetition rate of 10 Hz for both click and chirp recordings.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA410106

Entities

People

  • Ozcan Ozdamar
  • Rafael E. Delgado
  • Yuce Hekimoglu

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Amplitude
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Data Acquisition
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Electrophysiological Phenomena
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Instrumentation
  • Repetition Rate
  • Simulations
  • Sound Pressure
  • Steady State
  • Time Domain
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radar Systems Engineering.