Human hearing enhanced by noise

Brain Research

Volumn 869, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 251-255

  Zeng, Fan Gang ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^b   Morse, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Brainstem implant; Cochlear implant; Frequency discrimination; Hearing; Noise; Stochastic resonance; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLANT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034733907     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02475-6     Document Type: Article

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