Towards a unifying basis of auditory thresholds: The effects of hearing loss on temporal integration reconsidered

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 436-458

  Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Heil, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute thresholds; Auditory modeling; Cochlear impairment; Hearing loss; Reaction times; Recruitment; Temporal summation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; INTEGRATION; NERVE COMPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND PRESSURE; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 13844250515     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-004-5031-4     Document Type: Article

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