Effects of age, age-related hearing loss, and contralateral cafeteria noise on the discrimination of small frequency changes: Psychoacoustic and electrophysiological measures

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-222

  Bertoli, Sibylle ^a   Smurzynski, Jacek ^b   Probst, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potentials; Distracting cafeteria noise; Frequency discrimination; Mismatch negativity; Presbycusis; Psychoacoustics

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATERING SERVICE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADULT; AGING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33644858727     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-005-5029-6     Document Type: Article

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