Relationship between auditory intensity discrimination in noise and olivocochlear efferent system activity in humans

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 801-807

  Micheyl, Christophe ^a,b   Perrot, Xavier ^a   Collet, Lionel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SOUND INTENSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0030835378     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.4.801     Document Type: Article

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