Localization and speech-identification ability of hearing-impaired listeners using phase-preserving amplification

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 461-472

  Drennan, Ward R ^a   Gatehouse, Stuart ^b   Howell, Patrick ^b   Van Tasell, Dianne ^c   Lund, Steven ^d  

^a Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center   (United States)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Starkey Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NOISE STANDARD; PHASE PRESERVING AMPLIFICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27144535350     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000179690.30137.21     Document Type: Article

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