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Acoustics Tutorials

Overview Interactive tutorial that ensures that you have an understanding of the basic acoustics required for understanding of the physiology of the ear. Focuses on how intensity and frequency relate to air molecule motion.
Human Skull and Middle Ear Structures

Temporal Bone and Inner Ear Structures




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Audiometry Tutorials

These interactive tutorials will introduce you to clinical audiometry and how to recognize the basic, uncomplicated forms of conductive, sensorineural and mixed hearing loss, and interpret severity of loss.

Part I: Foundations
Part II: Recognizing Types of Loss

These introductory tutorials guide the student through interpretation of speech recognition testing and the concept of interpreting measurements of recruitment.

Speech Testing Basics
MCL, UCL and Recruitment Speech Tests

Formula Masking Resources
Masking Formula [PDF]
Masking Formula Review [MS Word Doc]


These interactive tutorials help with mastering masking.

When to Mask
Masking Fundamentals
Calculating Masking Levels

Decibels sensation level is explained in this tutorial.

Supplement on dB Sensation Level

Immittance/Impedance Testing Tutorials

Tympanometry Tutorial I. Principles
Tympanometry Tutorial II. Clinical Application
Acoustic Reflex Tutorial

Audiologic Instrumentation

Tutorials created circa 2000 on the basics of instrumentation
Electricity
Amplifiers
Transducers
Filters
Glossary


Commonly Used AudiologyTerms

Definitions of commonly used audiology terms: The Rane Corporation's Professional Audio Reference provides definitions to just about every term and abbreviation concerning acoustics.


Useful Links

Medline - This link takes you to the gateway for Medline and Medline Plus. Medline (use either Grateful Med or Pub Med) let's you find scientific articles on a topic. For example, if you enter the phrases noise-induced hearing loss exerciseyou would find abstracts for peer-reviewed articles published on this topic. Your university library may own the journals, and if not, should be able to obtain the articles through inter-library load. You can purchase them through Medline if not.


To find Internet resources on a variety of audiology topics, check out these sites


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