Temporal integration in normal hearing, cochlear impairment, and impairment simulated by masking0

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 195-203

  Florentine, Mary ^a   Fasti, Hugo ^a   Buus, Sdren ^b  

^a Northeastern University ^*

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023814612     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.396964     Document Type: Article

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