staggered spondaic word test

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Indications

hearing loss
- assessment of the central auditory nervous system, especially involvement of the temporal lobe^[2]
- used in conjunction with auditory event-related potentials

a test of central auditory pathway integrity in which spondaic words are presented dichotically
includes word pairs that are out of date

↑ Katz J, Smith PS The Staggered Spondaic Word Test. A ten-minute look at the central nervous system through the ears. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1991;620:233-51. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2035945
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Rei G and Bao-tian F Diagnostic Significance or the Staggered Sporadic Word Test and 40-Hz Auditory Event-Related Potentials Audiology 27:8 1988
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