Relative loudness perception of low and high frequency sounds in the open and occluded ear

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3351-3357

  Keidser, Gitte ^a   Katsch, Rickard ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Grant, Frances ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TENSOR TYMPANI MUSCLE; VIBRATION;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; SOUND; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0034094205     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429406     Document Type: Article

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