Masking-level differences in older adults: The effect of the level of the masking noise

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1197-1205

  Pichora Fuller, Margaret Kathleen ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, FUNCTIONAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0032193273     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206169     Document Type: Article

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