A Field Study of Occupational Deafness

Johnston, Colin M.

doi:10.1136/oem.10.1.41

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“…Furthermore, it is especially true of auditory tasks that everyday experience places great emphasis on the value of practice: those who operate communication systems in which several voices may be heard a t once find that continued familiarity with the situation brings impressive subjective benefits. Johnston (1953) has recently pointed out that workers in a noisy factory may understand speech in that factory though not in other noisy situations.…”

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Listening Between and During Practised Auditory Distractions

Broadbent

1956

British J of Psychology

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Subjects were instructed to answer a rapid series of questions, and during series a buzzer was sometimes sounded. Some subjects were instructed to make a reaction to this buzzer; this produced an interference with speech task, both at instant of buzz and also between buzzes. latter interference was reduced by previous practice at buzzer reaction, but former was not. If buzzer was one of two possible signals for a two‐choice reaction, interference at moment of buzz was greater, suggesting that situation is most easily described in terms of information theory. But previous practice in this case causes subject to perform secondary task in a way which requires less information and so interferes less. effect of practice in’ automatizing’ a task is thus real, but has important limitations.

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Listening Between and During Practised Auditory Distractions

Broadbent

1956

British J of Psychology

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“…While scattered other reports peppered the literature in the 1950s and 1960s, interest in PW waned over the latter half of the 20th century. It is described as an indication for surgical intervention in conductive hearing loss by Lewis (32), and in the context of occupational hearing loss by Johnston (33). Shapiro (34) offered a summative perspective of PW, with a literature review spanning Holder original description through Sullivan and Hodges experiments in the 1950s-he concludes that no more can be offered today than 300 years ago when the Royal Philosophical Society first heard of PW.…”

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The Curious Rise and Incomplete Fall of “Paracusis Willisii”

Quinn

Coelho

2021

Otology &Amp; Neurotology

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In 1672, Dr. Thomas Willis, a founder of the Royal Society and accomplished anatomist, described a peculiar phenomenon he had heard about ''from a Credible Person'' wherein two people with hearing loss appreciated some recovery of hearing when in the presence of increased background noise. Over time, this clinical entity came to bear his name, and Paracusis of Willis (or Paracusis Willisii) became a subject of both clinical interest as well as contention. In the early 1900s, a burgeoning appreciation for the diseases of the middle and inner ear heralded a boom in the study of paracuses, with many incorporating it as one of the diagnostic criteria of otosclerosis. At its peak interest, several potential etiologies were hypothesized in an effort to explain this puzzling entity-some plausible by today's understanding, many not. In the 1950s, however, its prominence in medical literature began to decline, though over the subsequent six decades it has yet to completely disappear. References to this peculiar phenomenon can still be found in prominent textbooks, review articles, and teaching resources. The fascinating story arc of paracusis of Willis serves as an illustration of how and why other questionable eponymic clinical descriptions can persist in conventional wisdom.

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The Relation of Occupational Noise Exposure to Loss of Hearing Acuity

Pell¹

1957

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

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A Field Study of Occupational Deafness

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Listening Between and During Practised Auditory Distractions

Listening Between and During Practised Auditory Distractions

The Curious Rise and Incomplete Fall of “Paracusis Willisii”

The Relation of Occupational Noise Exposure to Loss of Hearing Acuity

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