The 500 Hz masking-level difference and word recognition in multitalker babble for 40- to 89-year-old listeners with symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 367-382

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b   Weakley, Deborah G ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiphasic; Hearing loss; Homophasic; Masking level difference; Multitalker babble; Presbycusis; Speech perception; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33244482191     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16.6.5     Document Type: Article

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