A scientist develops a new screening for congenital hearing loss that can detect cells in the infant’s blood indicating cell necrosis in the cochlea, thus it can make use of the heel prick all newborns get to screen for other diseases. After some testing, the scientist declares that the test’s sensitivity is 95 percent and its specificity is 23 percent. If it were up to you would you recommend the use of this screening tool, and what explanation represents the best basis for that decision?

Experiments of infant speech perception make use of a variety of testing methods, which have also been used to test hearing sensitivity. The techniques that have been used in infant speech perception include all of the following, except which one?

The figure shows time and frequency representation of two sinusoidal signals. Please answer the questions 13 and 14.

The auditory cortex is located in the _________ of the brain.

The freshwater leech is an organism that feeds off of the blood of other organisms such as frogs and turtles. Which of the following describes the relationship between freshwater leeches and frogs or turtles?

One of our fitting goals is to make sure that loud sounds are not too uncomfortable. Which measurement on the Verifit would you perform to verify this?

Young bobcats watched as their mother stalked a rabbit and pounced, catching a meal that was shared by all. The next day, two of the young bobcats were seen stalking a field mouse, which easily escaped from the inexperienced hunters. The young bobcats were learning how to hunt by the process of

You are part of a team of pediatric specialists responsible with diagnosing and treating infants and young children with birth defects. A patient presents with these symptoms: coloboma (a hole in the iris), cardiac defects, narrowing of the choana (back of the nasal passage), small stature, genital anomalies, and Mondini deformation of the cochlea. What do you suspect the patient has?

The figure to the right shows the potential energy curves for the electronic ground state and an excited state for a diatomic molecule.  The horizontal lines represent vibrational states.  The vibrational quantum numbers for the ground and excited electronic states are given by v” and v’ receptively.  According to the Frank-Condon principle, the transition from v’=0 to which lower vibrational state would have the highest probability of emission?

The term eolian refers to