These results indicate that decreased audibility as a result of masking affects the various ERP peaks in a differential manner and that latencies are more sensitive indicators of these masking effects than are amplitudes.

In 1984, Ben Bussey was found guilty of child sexual abuse following eyewitness testimony to the alleged offense. At trial, a psychiatrist testifying for the prosecution explained to the Kentucky court that the alleged child victim exhibited symptoms of the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS;Summit, 1983). The Supreme Court of Kentucky reversed the conviction on the grounds that the lower court had erred by allowing the expert testimony into evidence because CSAAS was not a medically accepted scientific concept (Bussey, Jr. v. Commcvealth, 1985). Th' is case marked the first in a series of child sexual abuse convictions overturned by the Supreme Court of Kentucky on the basis of the failure of CSAAS expert testimony to meet the legal-scientific standards of People 01. Kelley (1976) and Frye 01. United States (1923; see also Stewart 6r Young, 1992).' 'The cases of KeZ&y and Fsye represent tindings that expert opinion based on a scientific technique is inadmissible unless the technique is "generally accepted" as reliable in the relevant scientific community. This criteria does not necessarily apply for expert testimony that does not claim to be an application of scientific techniques ( E l k , 1992). In a more recent case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Frye test, and by definition the "general acceptance" criteria, is superseded by adoption of the Federal Rules of Evidence (Daubert u.