“…Direct comparisons between the ABR and FFR have revealed that they are differentially sensitive to stimulus presentation rate (Krizman et al, 2010), frequency specificity (Picton et al, 1977, p. 105), their susceptibility to noise masking (Ananthanarayan and Durrant, 1992;Cunningham et al, 2002;Russo et al, 2004), and how their latency changes with stimulus intensity (Akhoun et al, 2008a). Moreover, speech-evoked brainstem responses may be impaired in children with languageand learning-disorders (Banai et al, 2007(Banai et al, , 2009Basu et al, 2010;Rocha-Muniz et al, 2012) despite normal click-ABRs (Song et al, 2006). Together with our new findings, these studies support the growing body of evidence which suggests that onset and sustained portions of the human brainstem response are generated by distinct portions of the auditory system (Worthington and Peters, 1980) and originate from separate neuroanatomical populations along the pathway (e.g., Krizman et al, 2010;Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2012;Picton et al, 1978;Ross et al, 2002).…”