Effects of contralateral noise on measurement of the psychophysical tuning curve

Hearing Research

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 63-70

  Kawase, Tetsuaki ^a   Ogura, Masaki ^a   Hidaka, Hiroshi ^a   Sasaki, Naoko ^a   Suzuki, Yôiti ^a   Takasaka, Tomonori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contra sound; Human; Olivocochlear efferent; Psychophysical tuning curve

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; TUNING CURVE;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034025189     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(00)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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