The Masked ABR (mABR): a New Measurement Method for the Auditory Brainstem Response

AbstractThe auditory brainstem response (ABR) is relatively non-invasive, and in many species, the only practical way to assess auditory sensitivity. The two main methods for measuring ABR are using either transients or tone bursts as a stimulus. The transient stimulus produces strong neural responses that contain no frequency information. In contrast, tone bursts stimulate only a small part of the auditory system, eliciting weaker neural responses but supplying frequency information. Furthermore, short tone bursts become less and less frequency specific with increasing stimulus wavelength, making them unsuitable for testing low-frequency hearing. Here, we develop a method that can measure sensitivity to both low and high-frequency stimuli. The method is based on masking of a transient res...

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