Changes in lateralization and loudness judgements during one week of unilateral ear plugging

Hearing Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 165-172

  McPartland, Jo L ^a   Culling, John F ^a   Moore, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory adaptation; Binaural plasticity; Conductive hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030784784     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00142-1     Document Type: Article

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