Influence of ear canal occlusion and static pressure difference on bone conduction thresholds: Implications for mechanisms of bone conduction
Journal article, 2005

The effect of air pressure change on bone conduction (BC) hearing thresholds in the occluded ear was investigated. The pump manometer system of an impedance bridge was used to change the air pressure in the ear canal of twenty-two normally hearing subjects. BC thresholds were measured with: (1) open ear; (2) the ear canal occluded with a probe tube and application of 0 daPa air pressure; and (3) the ear canal occluded with a probe tube and application of -350 daPa air pressure. Thresholds were lower in condition 2 than in condition 1, the difference decreasing from 27 dB at 2500 Hz to 4.5 dB at 2000 Hz. Thresholds were higher in condition 3 than in condition 2. The results are interpreted in terms of changes in the relative contribution of the three routes of transmission for BC sound produced by occlusion and by a static pressure difference.

Author

H. Aazh

Ealing Hospital

B. Moore

University of Cambridge

A. A. Peyvandi

Ealing Hospital

Stefan Stenfelt

Chalmers, Signals and Systems

International Journal of Audiology

1499-2027 (ISSN) 1708-8186 (eISSN)

Vol. 44 5 302-306

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1080/14992020500060669

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