Gap detection thresholds as a function of tonal duration for younger and older listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 371-380

  Schneider, Bruce A ^a   Hamstra, Stanley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NEURONS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033056126     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427062     Document Type: Article

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