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Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR; has been suggested as the standard abbreviation; Davis 1979); Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER – used consistently in neurology; Hall 2007); Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials; Auditory Brainstem Potentials; Auditory Brainstem Evoked Potentials
Definition
ABRs are far-field evoked potentials, generated by the brainstem auditory pathways. They are the earliest auditory evoked potentials that can be extracted from the electroencephalogram, recorded from the scalp with electrodes placed on the vertex and referenced to the earlobe or mastoid. There are two types of ABRs, the transient-evoked ABRs, normally evoked by high-intensity clicks presented at a high rate and the steady-state frequency following potentials (sustained phase-locked responses), which can be evoked by tones of a single polarity and phase (Picton 2011; Pratt 2012).
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Transient-Evoked ABRs
Human transient-evoked ABRs were first systematically...
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Escera, C., Althen, H., Grimm, S. (2013). Auditory Evoked Brainstem Responses. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_423-1
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