Inferred basilar-membrane response functions for listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1684-1695

  Plack, Christopher J ^a   Drga, Vit ^a   Lopez Poveda, Enrique A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BASILAR MEMBRANE (BM) RESPONSE; COCHLEAR FUNCTIONS; SENSORIAL HEARING LOSS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; AGED; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 1842582705     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1675812     Document Type: Article

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