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Objective response detection.

R A Dobie
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Evoked potential threshold estimation can be made truly objective by using statistically based methods. In general, time domain analysis is preferable for responses which are impulsive (temporally narrow, spectrally broad), whereas frequency-domain analysis is more appropriate for tonal responses (spectrally narrow, temporally broad). In both time and frequency domains, methods comparing evoked potential power to noise models are robust and powerful. For spectrally narrow responses such as steady-state evoked potentials, the performance of magnitude-squared coherence, the ratio of grand average power to mean subaverage power, is superior to that of other methods for objective response detection.

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Acoustic StimulationAdultAudiometryAuditory ThresholdEvoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain StemFemaleHearingHumansMaleNoiseReflex, AcousticComparative StudyJournal Article

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R A Dobie. 1993. Objective response detection.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00003446-199302000-00005

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