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20Q: Hearing Aids - The Brain Connection

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1.  Listening effort:
  1. Can be described as a listener’s need to focus more attention to understand speech that is distorted because of hearing loss
  2. Can is being studied using fMRI
  3. Can be quantified using pupillometry
  4. all of the above
2.  Wild (2012) reported activation in the ______ lobe when listeners were actively trying to understand distorted speech.
  1. Temporal
  2. Parietal
  3. Frontal
  4. Occipital
3.  Which evoked potential response was studied in the 1980’s to estimate aided hearing thresholds?
  1. P1-N1-P2
  2. ABR
  3. FFR
  4. Complex Speech ABR
4.  Aided P1-N1-P2 responses have been shown to:
  1. Reflect envelope cues contained in speech
  2. Be reliably recorded in individuals while wearing their hearing aid
  3. Not reliably reflect hearing aid gain
  4. All of the above
5.  Which investigator first showed that cortical evoked potentials such as the P1-N2-P2 are influenced by SNR at the output of the hearing aid:
  1. Scollie
  2. Wild
  3. Glista
  4. Billings
6.  Which of the following is true about recording and interpreting evoked potentials while a person is wearing a hearing aid?
  1. It is the same as recording and interpreting evoked potentials for someone who is not wearing a hearing aid
  2. You cannot record and interpret evoked potentials when someone is wearing a hearing aid
  3. It introduces issues that differ from the typical evoked potential research
  4. It can only be done in infants, not adults
7.  Which option(s) likely contributes to hearing aid success:
  1. Audibility
  2. Cognitive Status
  3. Hearing Aid Technology
  4. All of the above
8.  Which of the following is NOT an example of what the author refers to as a “brain measure”?
  1. CAEP
  2. P1-N1-P2
  3. Probe microphone measure
  4. Pupillometry
9.  Which statement is true:
  1. There was overwhelming support in the Special Issue on Hearing Aids and Brain to start using evoked potential responses in the clinic to assist with hearing aid fitting.
  2. It is likely that in the near future, a single brain response will predict hearing aid success.
  3. At this time, there is not sufficient information to recommend that brain measures be used clinically in hearing aid fitting
  4. all of the above are true
10.  Glista (2012) and colleagues:
  1. Tested CAEPs in children with and without hearing loss to determine if frequency transposition improved audibility of a particular signal
  2. Detected P1-N1-P2 responses in all children with and without normal hearing
  3. Used the FFR to study brainstem responses in children
  4. Examined frequency transposition hearing aids in people with dementia.