background and aim: human beings receive a variety of sounds in their everyday lives. these sounds are generated by different sources, and are heard simultaneously or with a small time sequence. a characteristic of the auditory system is its ability to analyze complex sounds, and to make decisions about the source of each constituent part of these sounds. the present study intends to assess nor...

how to cite this article: ververi a, vargiami e, v papadopoulou v, tryfonas d, zafeiriou di. brainstem auditory evoked potentials in boys with autism: still searching for the hidden truth. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):21-28. abstract objective brainstem auditory evoked potentials (baeps) have long been utilized in the investigation of auditory modulation and, more specifically, auditor...

background: noise-induced hearing loss (nihl) is one of the most common occupational illnesses. most of the studies on nihl were conducted at high noise levels that people are rarely exposed to but in industries. the function of the outer hair cells (ohcs) is impaired after exposure to industrial noise. distortion product otoacoustic emissions (dpoaes) are useful in examination of noise-induced...

background and aim: auditory processing disorders may have detrimental consequences on a child’s life, if undiagnosed and untreated. the multiple auditory processing assessment (mapa), as a valid model, has been introduced for central auditory processing assessment and diagnosis in school children. the purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the persian version of mapa for auditory pro...

background :older adults with cerebrovascular accident (cva) show evidence of auditory and speech perception problems. in present study, it was examined whether these problems are due to impairments of concurrent auditory segregation procedure which is the basic level of auditory scene analysis and auditory organization in auditory scenes with competing sounds. methods : concurrent auditory seg...

background and aim: today, bilingualism is a developing phenomenon which half of the world population is bilingual. auditory system is the main route to language learning, so it is expected that bilingualism has an effect on functions of the auditory system. auditory memory is one of the auditory processes which is a cornerstone of linguistic skills and learning process growth, so that, it has ...

abstract   introduction: hearing impairment affects all aspect of individual life, especially auditory perception, while use of cochlear implant or hearing aids has been associated with appropriate effects in auditory performance. the aim of the present research was to comparing auditory perception in children with cochlear implant, hearing aids and normal hearing in tehran province. materials ...

introduction: auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering are two major components of the auditory temporal processing abilities that contribute to speech perception and language development. auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering can be evaluated by gap-in-noise (gin) and pitch-pattern-sequence (pps) tests, respectively. in this survey, the effect of biling...

cavernous hemangioma is a rare benign tumor of the internal auditory canal (iac) of which fourteen cases have been reported so far. tinnitus and progressive sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) are the chief complaints of the patients. audiological and radiological planes, ctscan, and magnetic resonance image (mri) studies are helpful in diagnosis. the only choice of treatment is surgery with elec...