Frequency-specific threshold determination with the CERAgram method: Basic principle and retrospective evaluation of data

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-27

  Ross, Bernhard ^a   Lütkenhöner, Bernd ^b   Pantev, Christo ^b   Hoke, Manfried ^b  

^a Inst F Experimentelle Audiologie   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential; Cortical evoked response audiometry; Evoked response audiometry; Hearing threshold; Rayleigh test; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345472103     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000013816     Document Type: Article

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