James Jerger, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received his PhD in audiology from Northwestern University in 1954. He remained on the NU faculty until 1961, and then moved to Gallaudet College in Washington, DC, for a brief period as Research Professor of audiology. From 1962 to 1968 he served as Director of Research at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center, and then moved to Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, where he remained for the next twenty-nine years as Professor of Audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, and as Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Services of the Methodist Hospital. In 1997 Jerger sought, but failed to achieve, semi-retirement in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences of the University of Texas at Dallas. Here he continues to mentor doctoral candidates in audiology as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence.

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• ForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1. The Early YearsA Diagnostic ChallengeAbnormal Auditory AdaptationSpeech AudiometryBrain Stem versus Temporal LobeChapter 2. Immittance AudiometryThe TympanogramThe Stapedius Muscle ReflexAn Educational AdventureChapter 3. Auditory Processing DisorderThe Birth of APDAn Account of an Interesting Patient Chapter 4. A Once in a Lifetime OpportunityAn Important PointHistory and Medical FindingsFirst AdmissionSecond AdmissionFinal ThoughtsChapter 5. Binaural Hearing AidsAn Early StudyBut Is the Group Representative of Everyone in It?Binaural InterferenceA Very Intact Nonagenerian Chapter 6. Cued ListeningGroup ResultsThree Illustrative Individual PatientsLast ThoughtsChapter 7. Aging and Gender EffectsCan Speech Understanding Problems in Elderly Persons be Explained by the Audiogram?Auditory Processing Disorder versus Cognitive DeclineA Longitudinal Case StudySome Gender DifferencesAnother Gender Effect - The Shape of the AudiogramOverviewChapter 8. Auditory Event-Related Potentials to WordsWaveformsThe Importance of Forcing a DecisionThe Framework of an Auditory Event-Related Potential Procedure (AERP)The Late Positive Component (LPC)The Right Ear AdvantageBut What About Nontarget Words?Processing Negativity (PN)A ClarificationFinal ThoughtsChapter 9. A Twin StudyBasic AudiometryBehavioral Psychoacoustic Measures of Auditory ProcessingStandardized Cognitive/ Linguistic EvaluationsActivation PatternsDichotic ListeningDiffusion Tensor ImagingChapter 10. Odds and EndsA Visit to Montreal"Normal Audiometric Findings"Simian SurgeryA Researcher's DreamA Herculean EffortFinisIndex

James Jerger, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received his PhD in audiology from Northwestern University in 1954. He remained on the NU faculty until 1961, and then moved to Gallaudet College in Washington, DC, for a brief period as Research Professor of audiology. From 1962 to 1968 he served as Director of Research at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center, and then moved to Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, where he remained for the next twenty-nine years as Professor of Audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, and as Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Services of the Methodist Hospital. In 1997 Jerger sought, but failed to achieve, semi-retirement in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences of the University of Texas at Dallas. Here he continues to mentor doctoral candidates in audiology as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence.

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• ForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1. The Early YearsA Diagnostic ChallengeAbnormal Auditory AdaptationSpeech AudiometryBrain Stem versus Temporal LobeChapter 2. Immittance AudiometryThe TympanogramThe Stapedius Muscle ReflexAn Educational AdventureChapter 3. Auditory Processing DisorderThe Birth of APDAn Account of an Interesting Patient Chapter 4. A Once in a Lifetime OpportunityAn Important PointHistory and Medical FindingsFirst AdmissionSecond AdmissionFinal ThoughtsChapter 5. Binaural Hearing AidsAn Early StudyBut Is the Group Representative of Everyone in It?Binaural InterferenceA Very Intact Nonagenerian Chapter 6. Cued ListeningGroup ResultsThree Illustrative Individual PatientsLast ThoughtsChapter 7. Aging and Gender EffectsCan Speech Understanding Problems in Elderly Persons be Explained by the Audiogram?Auditory Processing Disorder versus Cognitive DeclineA Longitudinal Case StudySome Gender DifferencesAnother Gender Effect - The Shape of the AudiogramOverviewChapter 8. Auditory Event-Related Potentials to WordsWaveformsThe Importance of Forcing a DecisionThe Framework of an Auditory Event-Related Potential Procedure (AERP)The Late Positive Component (LPC)The Right Ear AdvantageBut What About Nontarget Words?Processing Negativity (PN)A ClarificationFinal ThoughtsChapter 9. A Twin StudyBasic AudiometryBehavioral Psychoacoustic Measures of Auditory ProcessingStandardized Cognitive/ Linguistic EvaluationsActivation PatternsDichotic ListeningDiffusion Tensor ImagingChapter 10. Odds and EndsA Visit to Montreal"Normal Audiometric Findings"Simian SurgeryA Researcher's DreamA Herculean EffortFinisIndex

James Jerger, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received his PhD in audiology from Northwestern University in 1954. He remained on the NU faculty until 1961, and then moved to Gallaudet College in Washington, DC, for a brief period as Research Professor of audiology. From 1962 to 1968 he served as Director of Research at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center, and then moved to Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, where he remained for the next twenty-nine years as Professor of Audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, and as Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Services of the Methodist Hospital. In 1997 Jerger sought, but failed to achieve, semi-retirement in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences of the University of Texas at Dallas. Here he continues to mentor doctoral candidates in audiology as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence.

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• ForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1. The Early YearsA Diagnostic ChallengeAbnormal Auditory AdaptationSpeech AudiometryBrain Stem versus Temporal LobeChapter 2. Immittance AudiometryThe TympanogramThe Stapedius Muscle ReflexAn Educational AdventureChapter 3. Auditory Processing DisorderThe Birth of APDAn Account of an Interesting Patient Chapter 4. A Once in a Lifetime OpportunityAn Important PointHistory and Medical FindingsFirst AdmissionSecond AdmissionFinal ThoughtsChapter 5. Binaural Hearing AidsAn Early StudyBut Is the Group Representative of Everyone in It?Binaural InterferenceA Very Intact Nonagenerian Chapter 6. Cued ListeningGroup ResultsThree Illustrative Individual PatientsLast ThoughtsChapter 7. Aging and Gender EffectsCan Speech Understanding Problems in Elderly Persons be Explained by the Audiogram?Auditory Processing Disorder versus Cognitive DeclineA Longitudinal Case StudySome Gender DifferencesAnother Gender Effect - The Shape of the AudiogramOverviewChapter 8. Auditory Event-Related Potentials to WordsWaveformsThe Importance of Forcing a DecisionThe Framework of an Auditory Event-Related Potential Procedure (AERP)The Late Positive Component (LPC)The Right Ear AdvantageBut What About Nontarget Words?Processing Negativity (PN)A ClarificationFinal ThoughtsChapter 9. A Twin StudyBasic AudiometryBehavioral Psychoacoustic Measures of Auditory ProcessingStandardized Cognitive/ Linguistic EvaluationsActivation PatternsDichotic ListeningDiffusion Tensor ImagingChapter 10. Odds and EndsA Visit to Montreal"Normal Audiometric Findings"Simian SurgeryA Researcher's DreamA Herculean EffortFinisIndex