Forward- and simultaneous-masked thresholds in bandlimited maskers in subjects with normal hearing and cochlear hearing loss

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1049-1057

  Dubno, J R ^a   Ahlstrom, J B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BANDPASS FILTERS; FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BANDLIMITED MASKERS;

ACOUSTICS;

SOUND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0034903302     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1381023     Document Type: Article

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