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  • Title: The binaural masking level difference as a function of frequency, masker level and masking bandwidth in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.
    Author: Hall JW, Harvey AD.
    Journal: Audiology; 1985; 24(1):25-31. PubMed ID: 3977781.
    Abstract:
    Binaural masking level differences (MLDs) were measured for 10 normal-hearing and 10 cochlear-impaired listeners, at 500 and 2 000 Hz. Maskers were either wide-band (approximately 2 000 Hz), or narrow-band (50 Hz). For wide-band maskers the noise pressure spectrum level was 50 dB/Hz, and for the narrow-band maskers the noise levels were 50 and 60 dB/Hz. At 500 Hz the hearing-impaired listeners show abnormally low MLDs in wide-band noise, but not in narrow-band noise. At 2 000 Hz, the hearing-impaired subjects show abnormally low MLDs only in narrow-band noise at the 50 dB/Hz level. The clinical implications of the results are considered.
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