O'Loughlin B J
Audiology. 1978 Nov-Dec;17(6):525-40. doi: 10.3109/00206097809072613.
Normal 5-year-olds have been reported to be able, in a simple game situation, to match brightness to loudness in the same way as a control group of adults. This study investigated supplanting the normal ear in an alternate binaural loudness balance test (ABLB) with the visual modality, as a recruitment test designed especially for bilaterally hearing-impaired children. The results of normal 10-year-olds, with simulated hearing losses, suggest that category scaling was adopted naturally as a simplifying strategy in preference to ratio scaling (absolute judgements). No proportional increase in the matching function slope was evident, despite the amount of recruitment measured with an ABLB. The instructions needed to combat this strategy render the test unfeasible with hearing-impaired children.
据报道，正常的5岁儿童在简单的游戏情境中，能够像成年对照组一样，将亮度与响度进行匹配。本研究探讨了在交替双耳响度平衡测试（ABLB）中，用视觉方式替代正常耳朵，作为专门为双侧听力受损儿童设计的一种补充测试。对模拟听力损失的正常10岁儿童的测试结果表明，类别量表法被自然地用作一种简化策略，而不是比率量表法（绝对判断）。尽管通过ABLB测量了补充量，但匹配函数斜率并没有明显的成比例增加。克服这种策略所需的指令使得该测试对于听力受损儿童不可行。
