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Objectives

To evaluate the effect of contralateral acoustic stimuli on speech identification scores and to correlate this effect to contralateral suppression of evoked otoacoustic emission.

Design

Ten normal-hearing children with good academic performance participated in the study. Speech identification scores were measured in quiet and with different ipsilateral signal to noise ratios in two conditions, with and without contralateral acoustic stimuli. Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions were recorded for 70 dB SPL clicks with and without contralateral acoustic stimuli.

Results

Findings revealed that contralateral acoustic stimuli enhanced speech perception when ipsilateral signal to noise ratios was+ 10 dB and+ 15 dB. This enhancement had significant positive correlation with contralateral suppression of OAE.

Conclusions

The results of the present study support the hypothesis that medial olivocochlear bundle might aid …