A descending version of K. Hattler's Lengthened Off-Time (LOT) Bekesy test was administered to 24 hearing-impaired adults and 30 normal-hearing adults. The Descending LOT test substantially increased screening sensitivity relative to LOT test identifications, because of larger intertrace gaps. (Author/JDD)

This study examined whether a divided-attention, sentence recall task was more sensitive to distortion of the speech signal than a conventional focused-attention task with 18 normal hearing listeners. The study concluded that the simultaneous-sentence test, in its present form, is not more sensitive to the effects of peak clipping than is a…

Purpose of this article is to report an investigation of the usefulness of hearing tests under various conditions, and of the validity of such tests for the study of musicality. (Author)

The notion that response bias may spuriously influence categorical judgments on discrimination tasks with unequal response alternatives was investigated using the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test. (Author)

A simple computer system developed to carry out audiometric procedures that complement the human limitations of the audiologist was evaluated with 36 patients at a veterans hospital. (LS)

The Modified Rhyme Hearing Test, an instrument designed to measure speech-sound discrimination ability, was presented to 28 college-age normal-hearing listeners as a free-response test, and written responses to the test were obtained. (Author/LS)

A new test for auditory perception (Auditory Analysis Test) was given to 284 kindergarten through grade 6 children. The instrument, consisting of 40 items, asks the testee to repeat a spoken word, then to repeat it again without certain specified phonemic elements--such as a beginning, ending or medially-positioned sound. Seven categories of item…