Auditory compensation in myopic humans: Involvement of binaural, monaural, or echo cues?

Brain Research

Volumn 1041, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-65

  Despres O ^a   Candas, V ^a   Dufour, A ^a  

^a Centre d'Etudes de Physiologie Appliquee   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory compensation; Binaural cues; Echo cues; Monaural cues; Visual deficit

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

EID: 15944429686     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.01.101     Document Type: Article

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