The effects of neural synchronization and peripheral compression on the acoustic-reflex threshold

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3016-3027

  Müller Wehlau, Matthias ^a   Mauermann, Manfred ^a   Dau, Torsten ^b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AUDIOMETERS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; NEUROLOGY;

BASILAR MEMBRANES; LOW LEVEL REFLEX AUDIOMETRY; NEURAL SYNCHRONIZATION; RANDOM PHASE TONE COMPLEXES (RTC);

AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COMPRESSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC;

EID: 18844437822     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1867932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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