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fNIRS-based two-component response modeling in naturally sleeping normal-hearing infants estimated /ba/ hearing thresholds for 75% of infants, with mean ENL 10.72 dB HL (SD 8.64 dB HL).
- Why it matters: Hearing-threshold estimation in infants needs objective, quantitative measures, and the study tests whether cortical hemodynamics can be linked to stimulus intensity to infer auditory sensitivity.
- What they did: fNIRS recordings were collected while naturally sleeping infants heard auditory stimuli at multiple sound intensities, and a two-component-response model was used to estimate individual thresholds.
- The result: Cortical hemodynamic responses were preliminarily shown to be quantitatively related to sound intensity for estimating auditory sensitivity, with a case study emphasizing reliable low-intensity responses and careful regression model selection.
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