Horizontal localization with bilateral hearing aids: Without is better than with

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 515-526

  Van Den Bogaert, Tim ^a   Klasen, Thomas J ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a   Van Deun, Lieselot ^a   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL HEARING AIDS; HORIZONTAL LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT;

HEARING AIDS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 30844455361     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2139653     Document Type: Article

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