Loudness perception and frequency discrimination in subjects with steeply sloping hearing loss: Possible correlates of neural plasticity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2314-2325

  McDermott, Hugh J ^a   Lech, Margaret ^a   Kornblum, Michelle S ^a,b   Irvine, Dexter R F ^b  

^a Co Oper Res Ctr Cochlear I ^*  (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031707706     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423744     Document Type: Article

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