Informational masking in listeners with sensorineural hearing loss

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-119

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Arbogast, Tanya L ^a,b   Mason, Christine R ^a   Walsh, Michael ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0036618193     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101620010095     Document Type: Article

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