What is a test for central auditory processing?
Our ears do the hearing and our brain does the listening. Our ability to understand speech involves the coordination of the ears and the center for hearing in the brain. It is in the brain and along the auditory pathways to the brain that sound is processed and meaning assigned. Central auditory processing tests assess your ability to: • Remember what you hear – Auditory Memory • Remember what you hear in the order it was presented to you – Auditory Sequential Memory. For example, remembering a string of verbal directions – “get your coat, put it on, put your boots on, go out and shovel the walkway and then go get the mail.” • Determine which sounds are in the background and which are in the foreground – Figure-ground Perception • Fuse or integrate different signals presented to the ears simultaneously – Binaural Fusion. • Actively block information presented to one ear while listening to information in the other ear – Binaural Separation • Listen to information presented to one ear wh
