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ABSTRACT. The present study examined the similarities between four auditory adaptation techniques to determine whether the effects were correlated. The four adaptation techniques compared were: Simultaneous Dichotic Loudness Balance technique (SDLB: Hood, 1950). Magnitude Estimated Binaural technique (MLV: Batte-Canevet, & Scharf, 1982). Magnitude Estimated Menaural technique. (MEM: Weiler, Sandman, & Pederson, 1982), and the Monaural Reaction Time technique (RT: Davis & Weiler, 1976). Results did not show significant correlations between the four techniques, except (r - 0.39) between MEB and MEM procedures. This correlation was much < the reliability of the measures would allow (r - 0.98 and r - 0.99), respectively. Thus, it appears that the different methods either produced different adaptation effects or measured different aspects of auditory adaptation. The normal car apparently show several forms of adaptation, which reduces the perceptual strength of a continuing stimulus, in favor of an intermittem, less redundant one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
