Effects of contralateral noise on the measurement of auditory threshold

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-135

  Kawase, Tetsuaki ^b   Ogura, Masaki ^b   Sato, Toshinori ^b   Kobayashi, Toshimitsu ^b   Suzuki, Yôiti ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Masking noise; Olivocochlear efferent; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COCHLEAR NERVE; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0141961628     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.200.129     Document Type: Article

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