Hearing & Auditory Processing Flashcards
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Which structure in the auditory system is responsible for tonotopic organization, with high frequencies represented at the base and low frequencies at the apex?
Answer: Cochlea
The cochlea is tonotopically organized, with hair cells at the base responding to high frequencies and those at the apex responding to low frequencies.
A school-age child shows difficulty understanding rapidly presented speech but performs well with slowed speech. Which intervention strategy is MOST appropriate?
Answer: Temporal processing intervention targeting auditory rate processing
Difficulty with rapid speech suggests a temporal processing deficit, and interventions targeting auditory rate processing (e.g., Fast ForWord) address this directly.
Which cranial nerve carries auditory information from the cochlea to the brainstem?
Answer: Cranial nerve VIII (vestibulocochlear)
Cranial nerve VIII (vestibulocochlear) has both cochlear and vestibular divisions; the cochlear branch transmits auditory signals to the brainstem.
An adult patient reports hearing a constant high-pitched ringing with no external sound source. This symptom is BEST described as:
Answer: Tinnitus
Tinnitus is the perception of sound (ringing, buzzing, hissing) in the absence of an external acoustic stimulus.
In evaluating APD, the Dichotic Digits Test assesses which auditory processing skill?
Answer: Binaural separation and integration
The Dichotic Digits Test presents different digit sequences simultaneously to each ear, assessing binaural separation and integration.
A patient with a lesion in the right auditory cortex is MOST likely to show difficulty with:
Answer: Processing music and prosody; left ear dichotic deficits
The right auditory cortex processes prosody, music, and spatial aspects of hearing; cortical lesions also cause contralateral (left ear) deficits on dichotic tasks.
Which intervention technique involves having a child listen to degraded speech (e.g., filtered or compressed) to improve auditory closure skills?
Answer: Auditory closure training with degraded speech stimuli
Auditory closure training uses degraded or incomplete speech to strengthen the brain's ability to fill in missing acoustic information.