Perceived lateral position of narrow-band noise in hearingimpaired and normal-hearing listeners under conditions of equal sensation level and sound- pressure level

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1821-1826

  Simon, Helen J ^a   Aleksandrovsky, Inna ^a,b  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE;

EID: 0030866365     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420089     Document Type: Article

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