Auditory enhancement at the absolute threshold of hearing and its relationship to the Zwicker tone

Hearing Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 171-180

  Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a   Kössl, Manfred ^a   Schmidt, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

auditory enhancement; negative afterimages; temporary threshold shift; threshold improvement; Zwicker tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030272797     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(96)00111-6     Document Type: Article

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