A behavioral measure of basilar-membrane nonlinearity in listeners with normal and impaired hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3666-3675

  Oxenham, Andrew J ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^b  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0030982117     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418327     Document Type: Article

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