Steady-State Auditory Evoked Potentials in Workers Exposed to Occupational Noise
Mariana Keiko Kamita, Clayton Henrique Rocha, Liliane Aparecida Fagundes Silva, Alessandra Giannella Samelli, Carla Gentile Matas · 2025
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Mariana Keiko Kamita and co-authors compare hearing nerve responses in workers exposed to loud job noise with those in quieter jobs, in a 2025 study. All sixty people tested had normal results on standard hearing tests, yet noise can harm hearing in ways those tests miss. The team used an electrical test that tracks how well the hearing nerve fires in sync.
Workers in noise had slightly worse thresholds on standard tests at two key pitches than the control group. The sync test, though, showed no clear gap between the groups. The authors conclude that any hidden damage in these workers sat below what the sync test could pick up, at least in the brain areas it samples.
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| CREATOR | Mariana Keiko Kamita, Clayton Henrique Rocha, Liliane Aparecida Fagundes Silva, Alessandra Giannella Samelli, Carla Gentile Matas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |