The effect of test signal type and bandwidth on the categorical scaling of loudness

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 2281-2287

  Ricketts, Todd A ^a   Bentler, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

ADULT; AGED; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0029943768     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415415     Document Type: Article

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