Frequency-shaped amplification changes the neural representation of speech with noise-induced hearing loss

Hearing Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 57-70

  Schilling, John R ^a   Miller, Roger L ^a   Sachs, Murray B ^a   Young, Eric D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Hearing aid; Noise induced hearing loss; Speech

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CAT; COCHLEA INJURY; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TUNING CURVE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; NERVE FIBERS; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0031945435     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00003-3     Document Type: Article

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